Singaporean loses bid to cut 29-year jail term in ‘horrific’ wife-sharing rape cases
- The man told the Court of Appeal that the sentence had ‘already choked the life out of me’
- He was jailed for conspiring with five others to have his wife drugged and raped over a period of eight years
The man also submitted letters written by his mother and sister who were in the public gallery. They asked for leniency on his behalf and said he was good to his family.
This cut no ice with the three Court of Appeal judges led by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon. They rejected the appeal within an hour, saying that if anything, the sentencing judge had been lenient to the accused.
“This is a horrific case,” said the chief justice.
Addressing the accused, he added: “I know you feel shattered. I know you were in prison and you were self-blaming and hating yourself and so on, but you have to confront what you did and you have to find the answer to that.”
The 42-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to 29 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane last month for conspiring with five men to have his wife drugged and raped over a period of eight years.
The man, identified only as J to protect the victims’ identities, also conspired with two men to rape their wife or ex-wife.