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What a disgrace to the name "Hang Tuah". Trying to bluff people that he is Chinese is it?
A DRIVER who raped a schoolgirl at the back of his lorry after plying her with drinks was yesterday sentenced to 12 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane.
Hang Tuah Jumaat, 41, was convicted of rape in August after a six-day trial.
His defence was that he was not at the scene of the crime at the time. But the witnesses he called on to testify for him - his son and a neighbour - were not able to corroborate his account.
The 13-year-old was the former girlfriend of Hang Tuah's accomplice, a 17-year-old who was sentenced to reformative training last December for rape.
As the court has ordered that she not be identified, the accomplice is also not being named.
On April 21, 2010, Hang Tuah drove his accomplice and the girl in a lorry to a road near Kranji Camp.
They started drinking vodka and orange juice.
The accomplice, who testified during Hang Tuah's trial as a prosecution witness, said the girl was tipsy, but the older man plied her with more drinks.
He said he fell asleep, and when he woke up, he saw Hang Tuah lying on the struggling girl.
He added that Hang Tuah had told him to also have sex with her, and he complied.
Hang Tuah then drove to Boon Lay, gave the girl $5 and told her to sleep in the lorry. When she woke up the next morning, she left for school.
She revealed what had happened after she was questioned by the school's discipline master and counsellor.
Yesterday, Deputy Public Prosecutor Adrian Loo pointed to the age gap between Hang Tuah and the girl - he was almost three times her age - and how he had exploited her relationship with the accomplice to invite her to a drinking session as aggravating factors.
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