Jail, caning for Singaporean who performed non-consensual sex act on Malaysian male tenant


  • Nation
  • Friday, 24 Aug 2018

Former project engineer Waduge Buddhika Upashantha Fernando committed the offence at his Kim Keat Avenue flat in Toa Payoh where he lived with his family. ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW.

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A father of three who performed oral sex on his sleeping tenant without the man's consent was sentenced to six years' jail with three strokes of the cane on Thursday (Aug 23).

District Judge Kessler Soh told former project engineer Waduge Buddhika Upashantha Fernando, 38: "What you did was abhorrent. You must not commit such offences again."

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