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In March, the High Court had jailed the 27-year-old man for 25
years and ordered him to be caned 24 strokes - the heaviest
sentence handed down by the courts for a single case of rape.
The man did not have a lawyer but appealed to the Court of
Appeal on Thursday, submitting two handwritten letters in English
in a bid to have his sentence lowered.
But the three-judge Court of Appeal upheld the sentence of the
lower court, saying that this was 'one of the worst aggravated rape
cases' it has seen.
'You tortured the victim, put her through hell for some five to
six hours, just to satisfy your personal lust,' said Justice Chao
Hick Tin, in rejecting the man's appeal.
The man cannot be named as a court order bars the publication of
any information that may lead to the identification of the
48-year-old victim.
Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_593733.html
