Canadian jailed for robbing StanChart bank in Singapore may escape caning

Canadian David James Roach arriving in Singapore on March 17 last year, after his extradition from Britain.- SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A Canadian man who escaped with more than S$30, 000 after robbing a Standard Chartered Bank branch in Holland Avenue on July 7, 2016, was sentenced to five years' jail and six strokes of the cane on Wednesday (July 7).

However, he may not be caned as the Singapore Government had assured Britain that any corporal sentence would not be carried out in order to secure his extradition, and said last night it was working through the necessary procedures to fulfil this assurance.