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SINGAPORE \u2013 A Singaporean held in custody in Australia since 2024 over allegations that he intentionally ran down a cyclist with a car while on holiday in Perth has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.<\/p>\n
Ng Jing Kai, who was initially charged with murder,<\/span><\/a> will be sentenced on Nov 3.<\/p>\n Documents seen by the Straits Times showed that the 29-year-old pleaded guilty to the reduced charge in August in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.<\/p>\n Ng, who was first charged in a lower court, has been held in custody since his arrest in May 2024.<\/p>\n Media reports then showed that he was later an inmate at the Hakea Prison<\/span><\/a> \u2013 a maximum security facility in Canning Vale, Western Australia.<\/p>\n Ng, a former mathematics tutor, was driving a grey Kia Carnival in Carlisle, a suburb in Perth, when the incident happened around 1.45pm on May 24, 2024.<\/p>\n He had been on holiday with his family and friends.<\/p>\n The Western Australia Police Force (WAPF), in a previous interview with ST, said Ng hit the cyclist with his car, \u201ccausing him to be dragged by the vehicle for a short distance, sustaining critical injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n The cyclist was taken to Royal Perth Hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n Police investigated the case as a possible property dispute. Ng was also accused of acting as a vigilante.<\/p>\n According to reports in Australia, Ng had accused the deceased of taking items from the car and refusing to return them.<\/p>\n The Singaporean then chased down the 48-year-old cyclist and ran over him, before dragging his injured body for over 30m.<\/p>\n Detective Inspector Gorton from the WAPF told ST then that several members of his family and friends were in the car with Ng at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n The maximum penalty for manslaughter in Perth is life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A Singaporean held in custody in Australia since 2024 over allegations that he intentionally ran down a cyclist with a car while on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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