By K. C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent

THREE prisoners have been charged with physically and sexually assaulting their fellow inmate in a cell in Changi Prison earlier this year.

The three men, aged between 19 and 21, are accused of punching and kicking the man in his chest and body some time between April 26 and May 5.

All three are also said to have forced the man to perform oral sex on them in the cell on several occasions between April 27 and May 5. One of them also allegedly sodomised him in the cell on April 28.

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