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THREE YOUNG BRITISH men were sentenced today to jail time and caning for sexually assaulting a Malaysian woman during a stag party in Singapore.
Khong Tam Thanh, Le Michael and Vu Thai Son, in their 20s, were originally accused of rape but pleaded guilty yesterday to a lesser charge of aggravated outrage of modesty after a four-day trial.
High Court Judge Hoo Sheau Peng slammed their “reprehensible” conduct and sentenced the trio, British citizens of Vietnamese origin, to jail terms of between five and a half years to six and a half years.
They were also sentenced to between five and eight strokes of the cane each. Caning is a punishment dating back to British colonial rule in Singapore and involves being flogged with a rattan stick.
Rattan is a strong wood commonly used in garden furniture, but is also used to make heavy canes for use in corporal punishment.
The attack happened in Singapore in September last year, when the trio travelled to the city-state for a stag party.
The groom, the brother of Khong, was also on the trip.
After attending an electronic music festival, the men met the 23-year-old victim at a popular nightspot, and she went back to a hotel with one of their friends.
Later, Khong, 22, Le and Vu – both 24 – took turns to enter the room where she lay drunk and unconscious and have sex with her, with the woman waking up as Le assaulted her.
As well as outrage of modesty, Khong and Vu, who worked as beauticians in Britain, were also convicted of an additional charge of sexual assault.
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Good job it was a secure system so…..
Anyway, it sounds like the HSE – not for the first time – will learn lessons. Going forwards like
@Gerry Kelly: Emergency services in the EU use the TETRA communications system with the TEA2 stream cypher to encrypt voice and data communications,
TEA2 is a high grade encryption cypher vastly more secure than civilian TETRA radios (TEA1) sold/used in the EU. Although the algorithm used in TEA2 was never published, a cybersecurity firm in the Netherlands managed to extract the code and analyse it.
They estimated it would take 535 million years to crack it.
@David Jordan: Are there any alternative solutions, like satellite phones?
@Athena: they could go back to normal vhf/uhv radios in emergency situations – these radios always work. Only downside is it’s not encrypted so everyone with a scanner or ham radio can listen to it as well
I’m not surprised the system went down. Internet and mobile data was gone the day after the storm.
Galway bay fm was down too so the only info we had was from radio one and they didn’t seem to think the storm was too bad at that stage!
All weekend Everyone in Athenry town had to park in their cars on the highest part of the ring road (now named signal hill) to get a little bit of mobile data signal!
I cannot understand why the ARMY has not been called in to help.
@Anne Collins: unfortunately anne the defence forces are completely running on skeleton staffing levels…..they have always been the first to jump in and assist but they just don’t have the staff anymore
@Anne Collins:
Lessons will be learned folks……its the motto of the HSE at this stage
Before anything gets better worse is going to come. It is all written in the book of life. I highly recommend anyone to take out the holy bible and start reading it. The reason the Earth is falling is because of sin. People are disobedient to the truth and must become obedient. Simple as that.
@Martin Monaghan: cop on fella with your fairy tales
@Martin Monaghan: I can’t read it, it’s still dark here in the west.
@Martin Monaghan: Always wondered Martin, what does your brain do for a living?
I think Malta would have no issue invading Ireland at this stage
10 4 Roger that
You can see the Unpreparedness and it’s Not a pretty sight. Imagine Nuclear War…Iodine tablets Out of date and Water you wouldn’t want to feed a cat. Not to mention…there are NO Underground places for the people to hold out for a time. Other major countries are Way ahead of this. Meanwhile we play with people’s and future people’s lives. Sigh!
@Mick Hanna: Is everything OK, Mick?
Still a Third World Country.
How awful, glad I’m OK and weathered the storm with relative ease :)
HSE is involved. No wonder it T1TS UP. Sure nobody to blame and fire more money at it. My money, that I hand over each paycheck.
The HSE has more pressing issues to deal with, like the war on vapes, which I wholeheartedly support
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