Dad gets 36 years in jail for raping underaged daughters

A FORMER crane operator was sentenced to 36 years’ jail and 20 strokes of the cane by the Court of Appeal today for raping two of his underaged daughters.

This followed the decision of the three-member panel comprising justices Kamaludin Md Said, Azman Abdullah and Lim Chong Fong in allowing the man’s appeal to reduce his jail sentence and whipping to 18 years and 10 strokes of the cane for each charge.