Indian-Origin Man Gets 18 Years’ Preventive Detention, 12 Lashes In Singapore

An Indian-origin man, a repeat intercourse offender, was handed 18 years of preventive detention and 12 lashes after he sexually assaulted a maid in Singapore, reported Channel Information Asia. The accused, Mark Kalaivanan Tamilarasan, 44, was convicted of 4 expenses of aggravated sexual assault, home trespass to commit sexual assault, outrage of modesty and impersonation of a public servant.

Preventive detention is imposed on recalcitrant offenders to guard the general public from them. Shortly after being launched from 16 years’ jail for rape, Tamilarasan broke right into a flat in July 2017 in an intoxicated state and attacked a maid earlier than sexually assaulting her, the report mentioned.

Deputy Public Prosecutors Chew Xin Ying and Sheldon Lim pushed for a most of 20 years of preventive detention for the accused.

Over the past sentencing listening to in February, the accused’s uncle pleaded earlier than the court docket to impose a gag order on his nephew’s identification. He additional claimed that he visited his nephew in jail and he confirmed regret in the direction of his actions.

On the premise of those arguments, Justice Pang Khang Chau ordered for one more preventive detention suitability report previous to the court docket asserting his sentence, the report mentioned.

The second report had the identical conclusions. The prosecution remained steadfast of their demand in asking for 20 years’ preventive detention for Kalaivanan.

The defence requested for the sentence to be backdated as a way to bear in mind Kalaivanan’s six years in remand. Nonetheless, the prosecutors objected to this and mentioned that preventive detention was completely different from remand. 

In the course of the listening to, the accused’s uncle hit out on the lead prosecutor, saying she had handled his nephew like “a caged animal” and requested if she understood what a day in jail was like.

The decide mentioned Kalaivanan was a “menace to the general public” and “past the attain of redemption”. “Each preventive detention experiences confirmed no regret on his half, and Kalaivanan refuses to simply accept accountability for his sexual offences previous and current,” the decide additional mentioned.