{"id":1774,"date":"2019-09-27T10:58:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2019-10-11T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T11:04:45","slug":"australian-accused-of-throwing-bottle-off-singapore-balcony-now-in-line-for-a-caning-as-well-as-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"Australian accused of throwing bottle off Singapore balcony now in line for a caning as well as prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg\" alt=\"ausi\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1775\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg 299w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi-200x113.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>An Australian accused of throwing a bottle from a Singapore balcony killing a man below him is now facing a potential caning as well as a 15-year prison stint.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Gosling was charged with an offence known in the city-state as &#8220;killer-litter crime&#8221; after he allegedly slung a wine bottle from the seventh storey of a high rise apartment.<br \/>\nIt then allegedly landed on the head of a 73-year-old delivery driver and grandfather, who was at a barbecue below surrounded by friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Police then went door to door at the apartment block showing residents a picture of the Italian wine bottle and asking if they&#8217;d been drinking and were willing to provide fingerprint samples.<\/p>\n<p>Gosling, a 47-year-old contractor to multinational firm Orica, was arrested three weeks ago and charged with &#8220;a rash act causing death&#8221; which is known by locals as &#8220;killer-litter crime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: 7news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian accused of throwing a bottle from a Singapore balcony killing a man below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[5,33,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg",299,168,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg",299,168,false],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg",299,168,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg",299,168,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg",299,168,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg",299,168,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg",299,168,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg",299,168,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ausi.jpg",299,168,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}