SINGAPORE - David James Roach, the Canadian sentenced to five years' jail and six strokes of the cane for robbing a bank of more than $30,000 in 2016, has been spared the cane. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Sunday (July 25) that Roach, who committed the Standard Chartered Bank robbery which took place on July 7, 2016, had his sentence of caning remitted on Saturday. This is because the Singapore Government had assured Britain that any corporal sentence on Roach, who had fled Singapore, would not be carried out in order to secure his extradition. The ministry said that the President, on the advice of the Cabinet, has exercised her powers under Article 22P(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore to remit the sentence of six strokes of the cane imposed on Roach. "The Singapore Government has thus fulfilled the assurance given to the United Kingdom (UK) Government. No alternative punishment will be imposed on Roach in lieu of the remitted sentence of caning." David James Roach, now 31, had fled Singapore soon after the robbery, where he made off with $30,000. He was sentenced on Wednesday (July 7). MHA said that Roach fled Singapore to Thailand on the day of th...