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The High Court allowed the sentence appeal, held the District Judge had relied on an inapt precedent, and reduced imprisonment from 7 months 3 weeks to 15 weeks.
The High Court held that Fernando’s sentencing approach applies to debit card cheating, but reduced the appellant’s cheating sentences to 24 months each.
The High Court sentenced Gao Xiong for attempted rape and criminal trespass, applying a modified Terence Ng framework and a 20% guilty plea discount.
The High Court dismissed a magistrate’s appeal over unlicensed payment services, holding the appellant carried on a business of arranging cross-border money transfers and that six weeks’ imprisonment was not excessive.
The High Court increased the respondent’s aggregate sentence for multiple cat cruelty offences from 14 to 27 months, emphasizing deterrence, premeditation, and only limited mitigation for depression.
The High Court remitted caning without imposing imprisonment in lieu, holding that additional custody was unnecessary and ineffective given the offender’s existing lengthy preventive detention.
The High Court held that post-amendment penile-oral rape is equal in gravity to penile-vaginal rape, upheld imprisonment and caning, and dismissed the appeal.
The High Court convicted Foo Li Ping and Wong Shi Xiang of offences arising from the abuse, death, and disposal of Megan Khung’s remains, and imposed heavy prison terms.
The High Court set aside the district judge’s grounds for extensive adoption of the prosecution’s submissions, then re-decided conviction and sentence de novo.
Court of Appeal upheld a 16-year sentence for a school axe killing, holding that the offender’s major depressive disorder only partly reduced culpability.
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