A 28-year-old Indian national who spiked his compatriot flatmate's drink with the intention to rape her was today sentenced to two years and 10 months in jail and three strokes of the cane.
Annadurai Prabakaran, a private hire bus driver who has worked in Singapore for more than seven years, started having thoughts about having sex with his flatmate, a 21-year-old, on December 8 last year, according to court documents.
"He thus planned to drug her and have sexual intercourse with her while she was asleep," the Channel News Asia reported citing court documents.
The next day, he bought two of what he thought were
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