SINGAPORE: The Singapore Armed Forces regrets that the commanders involved in an incident that led to full-time national serviceman Dave Lee's death had breached regulations and thus failed in their duties, said the Ministry of Defence on Thursday .
Following the incident, the supervising officer of the fast march, Captain Tan Baoshu, was charged in the State Courts with causing CFC Lee's death by a rash act not amounting to culpable homicide.CPT Tan was granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal on Jan 8 last year after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, MINDEF said. He died on Feb 13, aged 31.by a military court, with three having their rank of Third Sergeant demoted to Corporal.
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