Westbury: Discipline and bare-bottom canings

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Ng Theng Shuang, a Malaysian gunman found guilty of robbing a woman of her station-wagon while using a firearm.

When using any implement I make sure I don't strike any vital organs, and I'm especially aware of where the kidneys are.

Chua Gin Boon, a 26-year-old Singaporean gang member who was the accomplice of Ong Yeow Tian in an attempted housebreaking case in February 1989, where both were caught by the police. I do understand that many practitioners of corporal punishment recommend 'warming up' the recipients bottom with a lighter hand spanking, before moving on to the cane, but that's not the way I like to do things.

I drape several layers of towelling over his bottom, then, starting lightly, begin administering strokes, gradually increasing the force until I'm happy with both the severity and the accuracy. I quickly learnt to adjust my grip to orientate the birch to allow as many switches to make contact as possible. I may ask him to recite the rules from memory at any time and he will receive a minimum penalty punishment of six of the best if he is not word perfect.

One day I might find Robert's pain threshold after a dozen strokes of the cane, other days it might take several dozen strokes. Kraisak Sakha, one of the four Thai workers involved in the murder of 47-year-old taxi driver Lee Kok Yin in January 1995. If the offender is under 18, he may receive up to 10 strokes of the cane, [4] [7] but a lighter cane will be used in this case. These practices of caning as punishment were introduced during the period of British colonial rule in Singapore.