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20.08.2020 - 04:33

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An ex-British public schoolboy was stripped naked and caned 24 times in a Singapore prison as part of his punishment for drug offences.

The Foreign Office has condemned the lashing of Ye Ming Yuen, aged 31 - who was struck two dozen times with a 4ft rattan cane on Wednesday.

The former Westminster School and Dulwich Prep School pupil is incarcerated at Changi Prison having been sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking cannabis and crystal meth.

He saw his final appeal against the caning - an additional judicial corporal punishment - thrown out last week. Home Secretary Priti Patel and ex-foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt had called for leniency, while The British High Commission in Singapore said it "strongly opposes" any corporal

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