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Chief Justice Yong Pung How allows Tan Boon Hock's appeal and substitutes a fine of $2,000 for the sentence of four months’ imprisonment and three strokes of the cane.
In doing so, he sets a precedent that Police Anti-gay entrapment cases would be unlikely to be convicted under "outrage of modesty" and even if they were, would not result in a prison sentence. Anti-gay operations still continued despite this ruling.
Tan Boon Hock v Public Prosecutor Suit no.: MA 493/93/01 Decision date: 15 Apr 1994 Court: High Court Coram: Yong Pung How, Chief Justice The appellant Tan was charged outraging the modesty of the complainant. The latter was in fact a police officer who participated in a police operation aimed at ‘flushing out’ homosexuals in the vicinity. At trial, Tan pleaded guilty to the charge and the magistrate construed the case of Chandresh Patel as obliging him to impose a custodial sentence and caning.
in that same year, 1993, two incidents anti-gay entrapment operations occured, the rascals incident, suggested as #singapore's #stonewall and Tanjong Rhu. (A dramatisation film was made after on this)
To learn more about #policeentrapment and #s377a and its connection to #HIV
https://heckinunicorn.com/blogs/heckin-unicorn-blog/police-entrapment-gay-men-singapore-comprehensive-summary
It was the first time gay people wrote a complaint to the police and had received an apology on the way detained queer people were treated.
https://the-singapore-lgbt-encyclopaedia.fandom.com/wiki/Rascals_incident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_E6B9z79T8 7/11
Olivia Paramour