EPTSo there's a guy in Singapore's Changi Prison who claims he's been sexually and physically abused by his two cellmates. The case has gone to trial and the newspaper are carrying daily reports of the proceedings.
So today, the victim says that his two buddies used to sodomise him at night.
One of the accused says it's a blatant lie, because wouldn't you agree that Changi Prison's lights go off at night? So wouldn't you agree that it is pitch black? So wouldn't you agree that since it is pitch black, there is no way that you could have seen us sodomising you?
The victim replies, in the nicest way possible, that no matter how dark it is he's pretty sure he knows when a cock is being shoved up his arse.
Ah, yes, but, says the accused darkly, it could have been "something else".
As you might have guessed, the accused are representing themselves without the aid of a lawyer.
EDIT: Oops, he was abused by THREE of his cellmates. And here I thought it couldn't get any worse.
EDIT 2: Read it in the Today newspaper, but here's an online source:
http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC090709-0000106/Pain-couldve-been-caused-by-something-else
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THE LIGHTS in the cells at Changi Prison are switched off before bed time.
So if the room was very dark as he had claimed, how did the ex-inmate, who is accusing his three former cellmates of sexual and physical abuse, know he was being sodomised?
This was a question put forth by Mohammed Zameen Abdul Manoff, 21, the last of the prisoners to cross examine the victim.
Zameen, who was said to be the culprit, suggested that the pain the 22-year-old had felt could have been caused by "something else", but he did not say what.
It was one of many attempts yesterday to refute the victim's testimony by either pointing out "inconsistencies" with his police statements or suggesting he was bisexual and a willing partner.
Together with Iryan Abdul Karim and Muhammad Hamdan Abdul Rahman, also aged between 20 and 21, Zameen beat the former inmate and left him with multiple rib fractures, a lung infection and injuries to his liver and kidney over an eight-day period last year.
And as his cellmates did on Tuesday during their cross-examination of the victim, Zameen alleged that the victim offered to settle their problems through sexual favours.
The accused argued that the victim did not tell prison officers Raymond Yin and Zulkifli Osman, who visited him in hospital after the beatings, about this. But in his statement to the police, the victim said he performed oral sex.
Above all, said Zameen, there were many occasions for the victim to tell someone that he was being bullied, but the latter chose to come back to the cell "knowing the sexual things would happen again".
When questioned later by Deputy Public Prosecutor David Khoo, the victim said he was "not bisexual" but resorted to sex "because he didn't know what to do".
He also insisted that while he may have "jumbled up" the facts in court after repeated questioning, he was telling the truth about what had happened.
At the end of his testimony, High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang asked him if he was suing the Government, presumably for negligence on the part of the prison officers. The victim denied he was doing so.
Lawyer Rajan Supramaniam, representing the victim's family, later said he has not received any instruction to act against the Singapore Prisons Service.
The trial continues today. Two other prisoners will take the stand on behalf of the prosecution.
So if the room was very dark as he had claimed, how did the ex-inmate, who is accusing his three former cellmates of sexual and physical abuse, know he was being sodomised?
This was a question put forth by Mohammed Zameen Abdul Manoff, 21, the last of the prisoners to cross examine the victim.
Zameen, who was said to be the culprit, suggested that the pain the 22-year-old had felt could have been caused by "something else", but he did not say what.
It was one of many attempts yesterday to refute the victim's testimony by either pointing out "inconsistencies" with his police statements or suggesting he was bisexual and a willing partner.
Together with Iryan Abdul Karim and Muhammad Hamdan Abdul Rahman, also aged between 20 and 21, Zameen beat the former inmate and left him with multiple rib fractures, a lung infection and injuries to his liver and kidney over an eight-day period last year.
And as his cellmates did on Tuesday during their cross-examination of the victim, Zameen alleged that the victim offered to settle their problems through sexual favours.
The accused argued that the victim did not tell prison officers Raymond Yin and Zulkifli Osman, who visited him in hospital after the beatings, about this. But in his statement to the police, the victim said he performed oral sex.
Above all, said Zameen, there were many occasions for the victim to tell someone that he was being bullied, but the latter chose to come back to the cell "knowing the sexual things would happen again".
When questioned later by Deputy Public Prosecutor David Khoo, the victim said he was "not bisexual" but resorted to sex "because he didn't know what to do".
He also insisted that while he may have "jumbled up" the facts in court after repeated questioning, he was telling the truth about what had happened.
At the end of his testimony, High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang asked him if he was suing the Government, presumably for negligence on the part of the prison officers. The victim denied he was doing so.
Lawyer Rajan Supramaniam, representing the victim's family, later said he has not received any instruction to act against the Singapore Prisons Service.
The trial continues today. Two other prisoners will take the stand on behalf of the prosecution.
