A businessperson was sent to jail for 12 years after he lost his appeal to set aside his conviction for raping his Indonesian maid in 2016.

The Court of Appeal’s three-member bench comprising judges Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera, Hadhariah Syed Ismail, and Wong Kian Kheong also ordered Sufian Sulaiman to be whipped five times.

Wong, who delivered the court’s unanimous decision, said there was no...