Law against police torture extends to others

[skyleon]

Judge explains why he jailed man who beat up teen to get confession


K. C. VIJAYAN, THE STRAITS TIMES

Oct 14, 2017 06:00 am
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A law that makes it an offence for the police to use torture to extract confessions can be used on others who employ such methods, including vigilantes.

Explaining why he jailed a 42-year-old man for 15 months after he had tied up a teen and beat him to wring a confession out of him, District Judge Kenneth Yap referred to a High Court precedent from 21 years ago that involved a similar beating by three cops.

The High Court had said, then, that the main aim of the relevant Section 330 of the Penal Code was to prevent torture by the police, but it also said a benchmark two-year jail sentence may be appropriate where non-law enforcement officers were involved, other factors being considered.

District Judge Yap said the offender, whose name was redacted, should not be treated any more leniently just because he had acted upon a mistaken belief that his victim had hacked his phone when he restrained and beat him up.

"He had taken calculated steps to extract a confession in open violation of the criminal process, and should be punished in the same measure as any vigilante or abusive law enforcement officer," the judge said in grounds issued on Monday.

The man was sentenced last month after he admitted to tying up and assaulting the boy into a confession.

An additional charge of wrongfully confining the teen in his Tampines flat for almost two hours on Nov 18 last year was taken into consideration for sentencing.

SUSPICION

The electrical engineer was trying to unlock his Google account outside his flat when he became paranoid that somebody had hacked into it.

Spotting his victim in the void deck, he suspected him and took him into his flat for questioning.

This was after midnight.

The boy, who was high on Ice, was said to be afraid the man might have been a policeman.

Dissatisfied with the boy's answers, the man tied his wrists and legs.


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Know your rights .

[localla]

Stomp say fight,kick at golden mile.
Police came later

[phueng]

How to prove police torture? Everything sure covered up nicely

[newton]

Originally Posted by phueng

How to prove police torture? Everything sure covered up nicely

Police torture 100% they will cover up their own kind.
Seldom or none you see this cases reported in our sunny island.

[wontanmi]

Originally Posted by newton

Police torture 100% they will cover up their own kind.
Seldom or none you see this cases reported in our sunny island.

Fully agreed!

[conquer]

Originally Posted by skyleon

Explaining why he jailed a 42-year-old man for 15 months after he had tied up a teen and beat him to wring a confession out of him, District Judge Kenneth Yap referred to a High Court precedent from 21 years ago that involved a similar beating by three cops.

That blueboy is way to stupid to force a confession in such way.

Well, you can't run out from this if you physically abuse the suspect. Even the mainstream media helps to cover up the matter, the "victim" can always seek help from other sources like the human rights commission, foreign media, opposition party, sharing in facebook, etc. This will make SPF looks very bad.

[conquer]

Originally Posted by newton

Police torture 100% they will cover up their own kind.
Seldom or none you see this cases reported in our sunny island.

The problems with human rights in Singapore are reported only by the foreign media, but people seldom pay attention to such news.

If you happen to read newspapers of other countries, you will find that the so-called newspapers in Singapore are more like tabloids.