A labourer was ordered by the Court of Appeal to serve 32 years behind bars with 22 strokes of caning for raping and sodomising his underage daughter five years ago.

A three-judge panel comprising judges Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim, Azman Abdullah and Azmi Ariffin dismissed the 51-year-old man’s appeals today to overturn his conviction and imprisonment term for a rape charge and a sodomy charge.