this m&d sure is happy he raped his girlfren's mum. his not a muderer (pun intended) nor a molester -
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_593733.html
HE LET himself into his ex-girlfriend’s flat, bound and gagged her mother, then tormented the older woman for six hours before finally raping her on her own bed.
In March, the High Court had jailed the 27-year-old man for 25 years and ordered him to be caned 24 times – 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 yesterday, 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 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.
In April 4 last year, he let himself into his ex-girlfriend’s home at about 1am, using the keys he had stolen from the flat some five months earlier.
He knew his ex-girlfriend was out, and wore gloves and a T-shirt over his head to hide his face. He then went to the older woman’s room, where he bound and gagged her with masking tape.
He tied her arms to the bedpost and tried to rape her, but was unsuccessful despite several attempts.
The daughter returned at 4am and went straight to her room, oblivious to what was happening to her mother.
In the other room, the man fondled the older woman, then finally raped her. He left at 7am with her money and her mobile phone. She freed herself later.
At the appeal yesterday, the man, speaking through a Malay interpreter, said he wanted to submit a note to the court in addition to a letter he had sent in earlier.
In his letters, the man said he was appealing because of his one-year-old son with another woman.
He said he had been anxious when she was pregnant and turned to abusing sleeping pills and added that he was sad he would not be there to see his son grow up.
“I’m a failure to my son till I’m released,” he said.
He also wrote of how he had thought of lying to the police that the sex was consensual but decided to come clean as he did not want the victim to suffer.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Siva Shanmugam noted that in sentencing, the High Court had already taken into account that the man had pleaded guilty, sparing the victim the trauma of having to relive her ordeal during a trial.
Although the man claimed that the victim had forgiven him, the DPP said this was based on what the man said his mother had told him.
In response to Justice V.K. Rajah’s question on whether there was evidence the man had taken sleeping pills, the DPP replied there was none, and in any case, a psychiatric report said the pills would have had no substantial influence on his judgment or behaviour.
Lame.
