Rules are rigidly enforced and failure to comply with any of the rules carries a mandatory punishment, which can range from a single hard penalty stroke of the cane or tawse for a very minor infringement, to a very severe thrashing with no upper limit of penalty strokes for more serious infringements. In 2015, three judges, including Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, ruled that caning was not unconstitutional and dismissed Yong's appeal. Both Shawalludin and Faizal were originally charged with murder before their charges were reduced to voluntarily causing grievous hurt, while Firdaus was convicted of harbouring the both of them and a third man named Muhammad Khalid Kamarudin (who is facing trial for murder since 2019) and other unrelated offences like evading his NS duties and trafficking, consuming and possessi If the offender is under 18, he may receive up to 10 strokes of the cane, [4] [7] but a lighter cane will be used in this case.

Of all the six convicted attackers, the 21-year-old gang leader Norhisham Mohamad Dahlan was sentenced to ten years' jail and 16 strokes of the cane for culpable homicide; 22-year-old Muhamad Hasik Sahar was sentenced to life imprisonment and 16 strokes of the cane for culpable homicide; 19-year-old Khairul Famy Mohamed Samsudin and 20-year-old Fazely Rahmat were each sentenced to seven years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane for causing grievous hurt; and finally, 18-year-old Mohammad Fahmi Abdul Shukor and 20-year-old Mohammad Ridzwan Samad were each sentenced to three years' jail and six strokes of the cane for rioting. Subsequent legislation has been passed by the Parliament of Singapore over the years to increase the minimum strokes an offender receives, and the number of crimes that may be punished with caning. These practices of caning as punishment were introduced during the period of British colonial rule in Singapore. For example, in 1993, an 18-year-old molester was initially sentenced to six months' imprisonment but he appealed against his sentence. I've read that some of the more sadistic teachers in Scotland would sometimes have a coin stitched into each tail tip to give the business end more weight and more bite.

A punishment book helps to add something sombre and formal to a punishment, and is especially useful when administering judicial style punishments. If he is too near the prisoner, the tip of the cane will fall beyond the buttocks and the force of the stroke will cause the unsupported tip to dip and bend the cane and thus reduce the effect of the stroke. The body language of your recipient provides more evidence – all self-control is lost as the excruciating agony explodes through pain thresholds. Robson Tay Teik Chai, a 36-year-old gang member who was charged with the murder of Leong Fook Weng in 2000.

They can swing the cane at a speed of up to 160 km/h (99 miles per hour) [38] and produce a force upon impact of at least 880 N. The eight gang members of Salakau, who were the perpetrators of a gang attack at South Bridge Road, in which a 17-year-old soccer player Sulaiman bin Hashim died on 31 May 2001 due to grievous injuries; six suspects were arrested while the other two - Sharulhawzi Ramly and Muhammad Syamsul Ariffin Brahim - were not found. If there is no interest in listening to the begging and pleading that often accompanies sound punishment, then a gag can be useful.I do understand that many practitioners of corporal punishment recommend 'warming up' the recipients bottom with a lighter hand spanking, before moving on to the cane, but that's not the way I like to do things. I may ask him to recite the rules from memory at any time and he will receive a minimum penalty punishment of six of the best if he is not word perfect. Peh Thian Hui, a 48-year-old housing agent and a married father of three who was arrested in November 2001 for having raped the daughter of his girlfriend for more than fifty occasions from 1996 to 2000. The cane is soaked in water overnight to make it supple and prevent it from splitting and embedding splinters in the wounds.