PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Hossain Mohammad Azim

Hossain Mohammad Azim was convicted of aggravated sexual assault by penetration under s 376(2)(a) of the Penal Code, criminal intimidation under s 506, and perverting the course of justice under s 204A(b), arising from a violent confrontation with his former partner — a foreign domestic worker — at a staircase landing in 2021, during which he sexually assaulted and threatened her, and subsequently sent letters from remand to influence her evidence. The court sentenced him to 12 years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane for the sexual assault charge, four months for criminal intimidation, and ten months for perverting the course of justice. The sentences for the first and third charges ran consecutively, yielding a global sentence of 12 years and ten months' imprisonment with 12 strokes of the cane.