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A drug addict was spared caning after a sex change to become a woman.
The 40-year-old, now considered a woman, had been remanded in the Changi Women's Prison since December 10.
A district court was told that Preeta Nivashani M. Rechnam went for a sex change operation in Thailand in 2006.
On Monday, she was sentenced to seven years and three months in jail for consuming Ice.
She had previously been sentenced to five years jail and three strokes of the cane for morphine abuse in 1998.
Preeta was arrested last year on December 2 in a room at Oxley Hotel in Lorong 10 Geylang.
Tests showed traces of Ice and heroin in her urine.
Lawyers told The Straits Times it was unlikely that a man would change sex just to escape caning. One lawyer commented that this was the rare case of a drug addict with gender issues.
The 40-year-old, now considered a woman, had been remanded in the Changi Women's Prison since December 10.
A district court was told that Preeta Nivashani M. Rechnam went for a sex change operation in Thailand in 2006.
On Monday, she was sentenced to seven years and three months in jail for consuming Ice.
She had previously been sentenced to five years jail and three strokes of the cane for morphine abuse in 1998.
Preeta was arrested last year on December 2 in a room at Oxley Hotel in Lorong 10 Geylang.
Tests showed traces of Ice and heroin in her urine.
Lawyers told The Straits Times it was unlikely that a man would change sex just to escape caning. One lawyer commented that this was the rare case of a drug addict with gender issues.
