monster.

The accused, a grass cutter and an ex-convict, was just released from prison on 16 February 1999 after serving a 20 year jail sentence for raping a minor who subsequently died in 1985.

He had the audacity to commit a heinous crime on 1 June 1999 by violently shoving a 60 cm stick up the anus of his victim, a young innocent schoolboy. 

The reporters had a field day and without them I would not know of the seriousness of the offence and there would not be a need to revise this case.

The innocent schoolboy, aged 12, survived the ordeal. 

It took the doctors 5.5 hours to surgically remove the stick from the boy's anus. 

On that fateful day, the accused had stopped that schoolboy who was riding his bicycle alone on the pretext of asking for help. ...The accused was carrying a sack of durians and he had asked the schoolboy for assistance to transport the durian fruits ... to a nearby bush. 

On arrival at the designated place, the accused repeatedly punched the schoolboy until he fell unconscious. 

The accused then used a 60cm stick with its leaves and branches protruding and forcefully shoved it into the school boy's anus. 

When the schoolboy recovered consciousness, he could not move and he experienced sharp pain and profuse bleeding in his anus. At that time, the accused was no longer in sight. 

The boy's father Abdul Razak Rahmat had gone out to look for his son when his son did not return home by 6.30pm. 

Abdul Razak Rahmat managed to trace his son who was at that time lying on the ground with his pants pulled down and the stick was seen protruding from his son's anus with blood oozing out profusely. 

5 cm of the stick was seen protruding out from the schoolboy's anus.

The other end of the stick went right up to the surface of the chest skin puncturing the school boy's urinal bladder and rupturing his small and large intestines with severe tears in the anus.

The doctors found two twigs in the bladder with a few leaves in the peritoneal cavity. 

In his cautioned statement ... the accused proclaimed ... that he did the same thing to another young boy in Kulai at the Shell petrol station in April 1999 and that boy had since died.

In repenting, the unrepresented accused said: 'Hopefully, Allah will forgive me for my sins.' The accused further said as follows:

"I understand that I must be punished severely for committing such a heinous act. I am remorseful and deeply regret my actions.I agree that the sentence passed by the sessions court was inadequate. Therefore, I want the court to order that I be whipped 20 times so that I can cleanse my sins."

Soon after committing the offence, the accused had gone to a road side stall and ordered iced tea. There were blood stains on the accused hands and when the stall owner enquired, the accused angrily retorted that he had just slaughtered a chicken.

After I had revised the case and passed sentence accordingly, the learned deputy public prosecutors informed me that the accused had filed an appeal against excessive sentence imposed by the learned sessions court judge.

-- Per Abdul Malik Ishak J in PP v. Roslan bin Imun [1999] 3 MLJ 659.

I think, in cases like these... we cannot be impartial and dispassionate.