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In June 2010, Fay's case was recalled in international news, after another foreigner in Singapore, Swiss national Oliver Fricker, was sentenced to five months in jail and three strokes of the cane for trespassing a rail depot to vandalise a metro train that is a part of the country's Mass Rapid Transit. [33]
Informally, the term caning, as well as strokes of the cane and strokes of the rotan, is used. In both legislation and press reports, the term used is caning. Dimensions of the cane About 1.2 m (3.9 ft) long and no more than 1.27 cm (0.5 in) in diameter About 1.09 m (3.6 ft) long and no more than 1.25 cm (0.49 in) in diameter
Under the 1966 Vandalism Act, vandals could be sentenced to three years imprisonment, fined a maximum of SGD 2,000 and given a minimum of three strokes of the cane. For entering a protected place under the Protected Areas and Protected Places Act, Fricker could have been sentenced to a maximum of two years imprisonment and fined up to SGD 1,000.
Nineteen-year-old Ho Wei Quan was sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment and 6 strokes of the cane. Twenty-two-year-old Lewis Wee Jun Jie was sentenced to 4 years and 10 months' imprisonment and 6 strokes of the cane. Twenty-year-old Chong Rui Hong received the lightest sentence out of the four—4 years' imprisonment and 3 strokes of the cane. [13]
Japanese man sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for rape 07/04/2024 10:38 -0400 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Japanese hairstylist has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for what the judge described as a “brutal and cruel” assault and rape of a drunk ...
Kho and Galing were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in 2010. After a 2011 appeal, Galing's conviction was reduced to robbery with hurt and his sentence was reduced to 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 years and 19 strokes of the cane. Kho's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane after an August 2013 appeal and re ...
District Judge Seng Kwang Boon presided over the joint trial of Neo Soo Kai, Neo's girlfriend, and Melvin Yeo Yew Beng. On 19 July 2000, Neo Soo Kai was sentenced to seven years' jail and 14 strokes of the cane, Neo's girlfriend was sentenced to two years' jail, and Melvin Yeo was sentenced to six years behind bars and caned 16 strokes.
Later, when the changes to Singapore's death penalty laws took effect in January 2013, Kho was re-sentenced to life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane on 14 August of that same year. However, the prosecution filed an appeal and it led to Kho being sentenced to death once again, albeit by a 3–2 decision.