SINGAPORE, June 20 -- The cyclist who was shot while riding in a live-firing zone in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve is being investigated for wilful trespass - and now faces fresh scrutiny over possible efforts to hide the route he and his friends took.

Sources told The Straits Times (ST) that the 42-year-old man, identified only as L, did not immediately inform police or hospital staff that he had been in the vicinity of the Singapore Armed Forces' (SAF) Nee Soon Range when he was struck by a bullet slug on June 15.

Although L was taken to the National University Hospital (NUH) at about 1pm, police were not notified until 11.55pm - over 12 hours later.

The projectile, which lodged in his lower left back, narrowly missed his kidn...