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A SEXUAL offender, described as a 'menace to society', was given the maximum 20 years' preventive detention on Friday for rape.
Iskandar Abdul Rahim, 34, was also ordered to be given 12 strokes of the cane after he was found guilty of raping the 35-year-old woman at an HDB staircase landing on Feb 10, 2008.
Iskandar, described as a menace to society by the prosecution, had committed rape while on bail for molesting a girl.
He is currently serving a sentence of eight years' preventive detention and nine strokes for aggravated molestation and other offences.
His appeal against this 2008 sentence is pending.
Since 1999, he had been convicted of various offences such as impersonation, cheating, theft and outrage of modesty.
When he was 23, he was hailed for his public-spiritedness for helping to nab a molester.
In the rape case, he posed as a psychologist and convinced the victim to let him take her home. He then raped her at the staircase landing. Iskandar claimed the act was consensual.
