A Singapore court on Friday sentenced an Australian man to five and a half years in prison for killing an elderly Singaporean man and hurting his wife with a thrown wine bottle, in what the judge called an act of religious hostility toward Muslims.
He came to Singapore to look for a job but one month after he arrived here, Australian Andrew Gosling committed a senseless crime which led to the death of a grandfather of nine. Read more at stomp.straitstimes.com
Andrew Gosling sentenced to five and a half years in prison after ‘causing death and grievous hurt’ by throwing a wine bottle at people two storeys below him
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A court yesterday sentenced an Australian man to five-and-a-half years in prison for killing an elderly Singaporean man and injuring his wife with a thrown wine bottle, in what the judge called an act of religious hostility toward Muslims. Andrew Gosling was convicted of “causing death and grievous hurt by a rash act” for throwing a wine bottle at a group of people two stories below him, striking a 73-year-old man and killing him in 2019. The bottle ricocheted and injured the shoulder of the man’s wife. “Such offences could seriously undermine Singapore’s racial and religious harmony and must