Malaysian mower to be whipped

Malaysian mower to be whipped

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): A Malaysian judge described a grass cutter who pushed a stick into a boy's anus as a "devil with a human mask" and added whipping to his 20-year jail sentence, a report said on Sunday.

High court judge Malik Isham ordered Roslan Imun be given an additional 20 strokes of the cane for shoving a 60 centimeter- long stick into the anus of the unidentified boy last month.

The move came after prosecutors appealed to the high court to include whipping, after Roslan was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 years' jail for the crime.

During mitigation, the 30-year-old had appeared remorseful and said he deserved to be whipped. "Hopefully, (God) will forgive me for my sins," he reportedly said. Following his arrest, Roslan had told police he also killed another boy in a similar way.

His latest crimes came just four months after an early release from a 1985 20-year jail sentence for manslaughter after raping a minor who subsequently died, the newspaper added.