Although the trial in the newly instituted fast-track court is being held in-camera and its proceedings subject to a judicial gag order, police allowed reporters to see the young man, escorted by the trial judge and lawyers going toward the bus. While the five men aged between 19 and 35 are being tried together, a sixth defendant, who is a minor but was reportedly the most brutal in the attack is being separately prosecuted as a juvenile. If convicted, the maximum sentence the 17-year-old faces would be three years imprisonment, while the other five could be handed the death penalty. The woman died in a Singapore hospital on December 29 from massive internal injuries she sustained during the gang rape a fortnight earlier. She and her male companion were returning from the cinema and were lured onto the off-duty bus by the men under trial promising to take them home. Prosecutors claim to have forensic evidence, supported by the suspects" mobile-phone records and the testimony of the dying girl and her companion to secure the convictions of all five defendants. Defence lawyers are likely to argue that the forensic evidence has been fabricated and that the haste following public outrage to prosecute the five could result in an unfair trial.