'Normal' fight turns deadly

FILE PHOTO: Lianhe Wanbao

For the first time during the culpable homicide trial of Hassan Amat, 52, the court yesterday heard a clear sequence of events that led to the death of Mr Mohamad Noraidi Zahari, who died in a fight between two gangs in July 2010, at Orchard Plaza.

Prosecution witness Shariff Hussain Shariffudin, 22, described how he went to a bar that day to drink with his friend and heard the bouncer talk about a fight that would take place that day.

He thought that it was going to be a normal fight and would not involve any weapons.

But he ended up holding a knife and being with others at the lift lobby when a chair was thrown at Mr Noraidi.