A former army staff lost his final appeal when the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction and sentence of 10 years in jail and five strokes of the cane for raping his former girlfriend.

A three-judge panel consisting of Justices Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali, Azman Abdullah and Wong Kian Kheong dismissed the 42-year-old man’s appeal last Monday.

Delivering the court’s unanimous decision...