A Chinese man has been sentenced to prison and caning in Singapore for the “brutal and callous” murder of a university student in 2019.
The 38- year- ancient hairdresser, Ikko Kita, is set to be the first Chinese national to become caned in the city- state, the Chinese embassy in Singapore told BBC News.
He will also spend 17 and a half years in prison and been caned 20 days.
Caning is a questionable but commonly used type of corporal sentence in Singapore, and is forced for crimes like theft, assault and drug smuggling.
According to court records, Kita met the woman at Clarke Quay, a favorite entertainment area, in December 2019.
The girl, who was then 20, had never known Kita before. When he brought her to his apartment and raped her, she was intoxicated.
He eventually shared the video with a companion and recorded it on his cell phone.
After the victim reported the assault to authorities later that day, she managed to leave the residence.
Kita has been in police prison ever since being detained on the same day.
On his cellular phone, authorities discovered two movies of the murder.
Justice Aedit Abdullah called the rape “brutal and cruel”, adding that the sufferer was “vulnerable, evidently drunk, and capable of looking after herself”.
The defense’s claim that the victim had reportedly given an initial sign of assent to sex was dismissed by the judge also.
Although some rights groups claim there is no compelling evidence that caning acts as a barrier to violent crime, Singapore claims that this is true.
Caning is done in Singapore by hitting someone with a sturdy stick on the back of the hip, which you leave behind permanent scarring.
According to rights group the Transformative Justice Collective, the cane measures about 1.5m ( 3.2ft ) and not more than 1.27cm in diameter.
In 1994, when US resident Michael Fay, 19, was given six cane strokes for vandalism, the practice attracted worldwide attention.
US President Bill Clinton pressed Singapore regulators, who continued with the punishment but gave Fay fewer strokes.