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Criminal law [2025] SGHC 264

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v KOH LEE HWA

The High Court convicted Koh Lee Hwa of outrage of modesty, rape, and sexual assault by penetration, rejecting his consent defence and imposing 12 years and three weeks' imprisonment plus 13 strokes.

  • Rape
  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Outrage of modesty
  • Consent
  • Corroboration
  • Sentencing frameworks
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Criminal law [2025] SGHC 249

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Lev Panfilov

The High Court convicted Lev Panfilov of outrage of modesty, sexual assault by penetration, and two rape charges, rejecting his consent defence and imposing 11 years 6 months’ imprisonment and 12 strokes.

  • Rape
  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Outrage of modesty
  • Consent
  • Credibility assessment
  • Totality principle
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Criminal law [2025] SGHC 117

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v CQW

The court found the Accused's VRI and cautioned statements voluntary (no inducement, threat or promise proved; late, inconsistent allegations about police conduct warranted adverse inference), those admissions corroborated the Complainant's testimony on seven incidents, the 6th Charge lacked independent corroboration and failed the "unusually convincing" threshold and was therefore acquitted, and sentencing followed Terence Ng and Pram Nair frameworks with calibration for offender-specific lack of remorse and adjustment under the totality principle yielding an aggregate sentence of 25 years'…

  • Voluntariness of statements
  • Admissibility of vri and cautioned statements
  • Rape
  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Sentencing frameworks (terence ng; pram nair)
  • Corroboration and "unusually convincing" standard
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Criminal law [2024] SGHC 240

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v CHJ

The High Court convicted CHJ of two counts of sexual assault by penetration and one count of obstructing the course of justice, imposing eight years' imprisonment and six strokes.

  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Consent and mistake of fact (s79 penal code)
  • Obstruction of course of justice (s204a)
  • Corroboration and impeachment of witnesses
  • Sentencing framework for sexual offences
  • Abuse of trust
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Criminal procedure and sentencing [2024] SGHC 162

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v CRX

The High Court convicted a young offender of aggravated sexual assault by penetration against his younger sister and ordered reformative training instead of imprisonment.

  • Sentencing
  • Reformative training
  • Caning
  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Outrage of modesty
  • Rehabilitation vs deterrence
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Criminal law [2024] SGHC 131

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v CGA

The High Court sentenced the accused to 18 years’ imprisonment and 24 strokes for sexual offences against his step-niece, applying sentencing frameworks from Pram Nair and GBR.

  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Outrage of modesty
  • Sentencing principles
  • Caning
  • Abuse of trust
  • One-transaction rule
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Criminal law [2023] SGHC 313

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Jeffrey Pe

The High Court convicted Jeffrey Pe of three sexual assault charges, rejected his challenge to a police statement, and imposed 10 years' imprisonment and 12 strokes.

  • Consent
  • Intoxication
  • Voluntariness of statements
  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Mistake of fact
  • Sentencing and totality
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Criminal law [2023] SGCA 30

Mustapah Bin Abdullah v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The Court of Appeal upheld convictions for sexual assault by penile-oral penetration, but reduced the global sentence to 18 years and 6 months.

  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Consent
  • Admissibility of statements
  • Sentencing framework and bands
  • Vulnerability and abuse of trust
  • One-transaction rule
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Criminal law [2022] SGHC 262

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Mustapah Bin Abdullah

The High Court convicted the accused of three counts of sexual assault by penetration against teenage victims, found consent was vitiated by fear, and sentenced him to 24 years’ imprisonment.

  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Consent vitiated by fear or coercion
  • Sentencing framework for s 376 offences
  • Abuse of trust
  • Youth victims
  • Sexual-assault-by-penetration
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Criminal law [2022] SGHC 244

ABC v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

Appeal against sentence for sexual assault by penetration of a minor under 14. The High Court held Pram Nair applies, but reduced the sentence prospectively to 3 years 6 months.

  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Sentencing framework (pram nair)
  • Effect of legislative amendments (2019)
  • Prospective overruling
  • Sexual-assault-by-penetration
  • Sentencing-framework
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