{"id":92683,"date":"2026-10-13T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92683"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:58:05","slug":"man-jailed-for-brick-attack-and-robbery-in-geylang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92683","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for brick attack and robbery in Geylang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->Months after he was released from reformative training, a man went on a crime spree, attacking and robbing another man after receiving sexual services from him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Shakur Han Shaid, 23, was sentenced to seven years and four months\u2019 jail and six strokes of the cane on Oct 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He pleaded guilty to three charges of voluntarily causing grievous hurt by a dangerous weapon, voluntarily causing grievous hurt and theft in dwelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The court heard that Shakur was released from reformative training under supervision on July 3, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He was to remain under supervision until July 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On Nov 10, 2024, Shakur came across a room next to a drinks stall at a coffee shop in Boon Lay, where he saw a wallet belonging to a coffee shop supervisor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He took $600 from the wallet and noticed a CCTV camera inside the room. Shakur angled the CCTV camera away from the victim\u2019s belongings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">When the victim ended her shift at about 8.30pm, she checked her wallet and realised the money was missing. She also noticed that someone had adjusted the angle of the CCTV camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She played back the footage and saw Shakur rummaging through the items in the room. She made a police report that same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Shakur was arrested on Dec 5, 2024, and released on bail the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On Dec 26, 2024, he got into a fight with a 58-year-old man at a void deck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Shakur approached the older man at the void deck of Block 186 Boon Lay Avenue after hearing from his girlfriend that the older man had molested her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He punched the older man in the face and pinned him to the ground. Shakur\u2019s father, who was with him, stopped the assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The older man called the police and was taken to hospital, where he was found to have suffered blunt trauma to his left eye and a fracture of his jaw.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-primary-headline-md-semibold\" data-testid=\"article-subhead-test-id\">Victim hit with brick, suffered facial and skull fractures<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On Feb 3, 2025, Shakur and another man, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/jail-for-man-who-robbed-and-assaulted-another-man-with-brick-after-receiving-sexual-services?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">Richard M. Azhar<\/span><\/a>, went to Geylang to engage the services of prostitutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">They met the victim, a 44-year-old man, who agreed to provide sexual services to both men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The group headed to the back alley of Geylang Lorong 21 around midnight on Feb 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">When the victim finished providing sexual services to the men, he told them that the fee was $50 per person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Azhar told the victim that they did not have enough money and snatched the victim\u2019s bag. He also punched the victim in the face a few times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Irritated that the man had touched his body, Shakur punched the victim\u2019s face and pinned him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He continued raining blows on the victim\u2019s face and kicked the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Seeing that Azhar was holding a brick, Shakur took the brick and used it to hit the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Both men grabbed the victim\u2019s valuables and fled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">At about 9am, paramedics from the Singapore Civil Defence Force arrived at the back alley and found the victim lying in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A blood-stained brick, weighing about 2kg, was found near the victim. He was taken to Changi General Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The victim suffered several injuries in the attack, including extensive facial bone fractures and a skull fracture, and had to undergo multiple surgical procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He also suffered injuries to the muscles in both legs, and required regular physiotherapy and occupational therapy sessions, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Khong Zi-Wei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Azhar was sentenced to 4\u00bd years\u2019 jail and 12 strokes of the cane in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The prosecutor urged the court to impose a jail term of between seven years and two months and eight years and two months, and six strokes of the cane for Shakur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He noted that Shakur had used a brick weighing almost 2kg to hit the victim and left him for dead on the road for over nine hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For voluntarily causing grievous hurt by a dangerous weapon, an offender can be jailed for up to 15 years, fined and caned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For theft in dwelling, an offender can be jailed for up to seven years and fined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/more-than-7-years-jail-caning-for-man-who-attacked-and-robbed-another-man-after-sex-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Months after he was released from reformative training, a man went on a crime spree, attacking and robbing another man after receiving sexual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92684,"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-92683","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\/92683","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=92683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}