British drug trafficker caned 24 times, received 20 years sentence in Singapore

[Song Hong]

A former British public schoolboy has been flogged naked in Singapore for drugs offences.

London-born Ye Ming Yuen, 31, who went to £41,000-a-year Westminster School, was strapped to a large wooden trestle before being caned 24 times.

The brutal punishment was carried out yesterday, a week after Yuen lost his final appeal against the sentence.

The 'judicial corporal punishment' was conducted despite calls for leniency from Home Secretary Priti Patel and ex-foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt. Yuen was caned in the city-state's Changi Prison where he is serving 20 years for drug offences.

A former club DJ in Singapore, his offences include two counts of 'repeat drug trafficking' – one of 69g and one of 60g of cannabis. Another offence included drug trafficking of 15g of crystal meth.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...led-drug-crimes-Singapore-caned-24-times.html

 

[Figaro]

A former British public schoolboy has been flogged naked in Singapore for drugs offences.

London-born Ye Ming Yuen, 31, who went to £41,000-a-year Westminster School, was strapped to a large wooden trestle before being caned 24 times.

The brutal punishment was carried out yesterday, a week after Yuen lost his final appeal against the sentence.

The 'judicial corporal punishment' was conducted despite calls for leniency from Home Secretary Priti Patel and ex-foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt. Yuen was caned in the city-state's Changi Prison where he is serving 20 years for drug offences.

A former club DJ in Singapore, his offences include two counts of 'repeat drug trafficking' – one of 69g and one of 60g of cannabis. Another offence included drug trafficking of 15g of crystal meth.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...led-drug-crimes-Singapore-caned-24-times.html

Geez you wouldn't think a country as advanced as Singapore still resorts to these medieval punishments ...

 

[zhxy]

Geez you wouldn't think a country as advanced as Singapore still resorts to these medieval punishments ...

"Every evil has good and every good has evil"

 

[atan651]

He's 'lucky' he didn't get the death sentence (hanging)!

 

[Song Hong]

Singapore government official statement that cumulatively, other than methamphetamine, he got more than 100g of cannabis.

That should be a mandatory death sentence.

Not sure why Singapore judiciary is not sentencing him death penalty.

https://www.mha.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...ing-of-convicted-drug-trafficker-yuen-ye-ming
About one month later, Yuen was arrested again for drug-related offences. He was found to have sold two blocks of cannabis containing not less than 69.74g of cannabis, and was in possession of another five blocks of cannabis containing not less than 60.61g of cannabis intended for sale. Yuen was also in possession of two packets containing not less than 1.29g of methamphetamine intended for his own consumption. He also tested positive again for methamphetamine consumption after a urine test. On 18 July 2018, Yuen pleaded guilty to the additional charges and was sentenced on 1 August 2018 to an overall sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane for his various drug offences.

 

[vi-va]

Should be sentenced to death if he was caught in China.