Overview
- He entered the water near Lazarus Island without a life jacket after first removing an oversized vest and declining a smaller one repeatedly offered to him.
- Toxicology presented in court recorded a blood alcohol concentration of 333 mg/100ml, far above Singapore’s 80 mg/100ml legal driving limit.
- Witness videos and testimony described him going limp and face down before he was pulled aboard, given CPR, and taken to Singapore General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
- The autopsy found drowning as the cause of death; a forensic pathologist said injuries were consistent with rescue efforts, with hypertension and epilepsy medications detected and no other drugs.
- Singapore police reiterated no foul play is suspected, even as an Assam SIT has charged several associates with murder in India; the inquest lists 35 witnesses, with further hearings scheduled.