The teen's 16-year jail term for killing his schoolmate has been upheld.
received 16 years' jail for killing his schoolmateThe teen, who turned 19 this year and cannot be named as he was 16 at the time of the killing, hadHe attacked 13-year-old Ethan Hun Zhe Kai in a school toilet on Jul 19, 2021 in an unprecedented crime that shocked the nation.
The killing was part of what the sentencing judge called his"twisted plan" to kill more than one individual in a spree in order to give the police no choice but to shoot him fatally.The offender was originally charged with murder but this was reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder after the Institute of Mental Health assessed that he was suffering from major depressive disorder at the time.
The sentencing judge noted that he"consciously decided to kill in school" as he believed that his chances of killing someone before being subdued would be higher there than in public. He also had photographs of the school's floor plan on his mobile phone, selecting the toilet as the site as it was far from his classroom, and concealed the weapons ahead of time.
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