I think about doing breathing exercises between each stroke to help me deal with the pain. ‘I’ve heard so many horror stories from fellow inmates who have been caned, of scars left on them, of canes breaking during the punishment and having to be replaced and how, after every few strokes, the caner is replaced to ensure each stroke is of the same intensity. ‘Of course, I’m scared,’ he says hesitantly. Yuen will receive little warning of the caning, so he lives in a state of permanent anxiety he has been prescribed sleeping pills and drugs to stabilise his mood. Pictured is a Changi prison officer using a dummy to demonstrate how inmates are caned Yuen's ‘judicial corporal punishment’ – which will be inflicted by a ‘trained caner’ taught how to cause the most pain possible.
