Company managing director who raped woman he met through work gets 14½ years’ jail, caning

A company director in Singapore has been jailed for 14½ years and caned for raping a woman he met through work. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE – A man who got acquainted with a woman through work met her for dinner, drove her home after she became drunk, and raped her on her bed.

On March 20, Jasper Lee Loong Kuan, now 37, was sentenced to 14½ years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane for a charge of rape.

Lee, who is the managing director of his company, denied raping the woman. He was found guilty on Feb 10 following a trial.

The prosecution had argued that the woman lacked the capacity to consent to sex at the time due to alcohol intoxication, and even if she had the capacity to consent to sex, she did not in fact give consent.

Lee, who was represented by Mr Gregory Fong, claimed that they had engaged in consensual sex, or that he mistakenly believed that the woman had consented to sex.

His claims were rejected by High Court judge Mavis Chionh, who found that the victim was in a state of near-unconsciousness at the time and clearly lacked the capacity to consent to sex.