Malaysian man, 21, who broke into house and tried to rape woman gets jail and caning in Singapore


SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A 21-year-old cleaner broke into a two-storey house in the middle of the night in 2022 while he was drunk, undeterred even after he cut his hands on barbed wire while climbing over a fence.

After getting into the house through an unlocked window, Andrew Kumaravel searched for money. He then entered a bedroom and tried to rape the 58-year-old woman sleeping there.

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