The Court of Appeal today reinstated the 13-year prison sentence imposed on a former religious teacher of a tahfiz and orphanage centre for physically sexually assaulting a male student five years ago.

A three-judge panel led by Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim also restored the caning sentence of three strokes of the cane that was imposed by the Sessions Court on Mohd Faiza Rizza Mohd Ropi.

The 38-year-old, now a pump attendant at a petrol station, had...