SINGAPORE — A Singaporean court sentenced a Swiss man to five months in jail and three strokes of a cane Friday for breaking into a metro depot and spray-painting a train, a punishment that could scar him for life.Oliver Fricker, a 32-year-old expatriate who was winding up a posting in Singapore as a software consultant, had pleaded guilty to trespass and vandalism, which are considered serious offences in the city-state.
"The total sentence is five months' imprisonment, three strokes of the cane," Judge See Kee Oon declared after a swift trial. Full Story
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