DAN v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

A father who brutally abused his two young children over two years — confining them naked in cramped spaces for months and starving them — appealed against his aggregate sentence of 34.5 years' imprisonment and six months in lieu of caning after pleading guilty to culpable homicide (his five-year-old daughter died from severe abuse) and four charges of child ill-treatment. The Prosecution cross-appealed for life imprisonment on the culpable homicide charge and the maximum four years on each ill-treatment charge. The Court of Appeal enhanced the sentence to life imprisonment for culpable homicide and the maximum four years for each ill-treatment charge.