The carpenter’s apprentice facing life for allegedly murdering his teenage colleague by forcing a high-pressure air hose into his rectum has released a video of them laughing together in an attempt to prove it was simply a prank gone wrong.
Trainee carpenter Muhammed Kendirci, 15, died in hospital on November 19 after a desperate five-day fight for his life following the incident in a workshop in Bozova, Sanliurfa, Turkey, on November 14.
The teenager had been working as an apprentice when he was allegedly overpowered by Habip Aksoy and an unidentified friend.
They tied his hands up, before pulling his trousers off and forcing high-pressure air from a compressor into his rectum.
Aksoy shared the footage, which showed Kendirci holding hands and dancing with him and other workers in the same workshop, following public outrage and claimed it showed they had been friends and that the killing had been a ‘joke gone wrong’.
Emergency services were called to the scene when Kendirci suffered massive internal injuries.
He was first taken to Bozova Mehmet Enver Yildirim State Hospital before being transferred to Balikligol State Hospital.
He was later moved again to Harran University Research and Application Hospital.
Tragic trainee carpenter Muhammed Kendirci, 15, (pictured, right) died in hospital on November 19 after a desperate five-day fight for his life
Aksoy (pictured, left) shared the footage, which showed Kendirci holding hands and dancing with him and other workers in the same workshop
Medics confirmed severe internal organ damage and he was placed in intensive care and remained under treatment for five days before passing away.
Police opened an investigation and Aksoy was taken into custody.
He was initially released under judicial control but this decision was overturned on appeal.
A warrant for his detention was issued and he was arrested again, and this time he was remanded by the court.
Earlier statements from the Bozova Public Prosecutor’s Office said the incident had happened during ‘horseplay’.
In a separate incident in Brazil, 17-year-old car wash worker Wesner Moreira da Silva died in Campo Grande after colleagues blasted a high-pressure air hose up his backside as a ‘prank’, causing his intestines to explode.
Two men were later jailed for 12 years over his death after judges rejected their claim that it had been a joke that had gone wrong.
In another Brazilian case, two doctors were indicted for manslaughter after using a compressed-air hose through a rubber cannula in a bid to blow a popcorn kernel out of two-year-old Ravi de Souza Figueiredo’s nose.
Emergency services were called to the scene when Kendirci suffered massive internal injuries
The teenager had been working as an apprentice when he was allegedly overpowered by Habip Aksoy and an unidentified friend
His lungs and stomach ruptured, he was sent home with medication for ‘gas’, and he later collapsed and died.
Police said the improvised compressed-air procedure was not in line with standard practice.
Experts have repeatedly warned that compressed air should never be directed at or into the body because of the risk of deadly internal injuries.
