SINGAPORE - A man who is serving a 35-year jail term for abusing his two children, resulting in the death of his five-year-old daughter, had his sentence increased to life imprisonment on July 11, after his appeal for a reduced term failed.The 45-year-old man had appealed for a sentence of between 25 and a half and 30 years' jail.Instead, the Court of Appeal exercised its discretion to enhance the individual sentence for the man's most serious charge, one of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, from the original 15 years to life imprisonment.The man cannot be named owing to a gag order to protect the identity of his son, who survived the abuse.While the prosecution did not file an appeal against the original sentence, the court had asked parties to prepare submissions on whether this case was one of the worst types of cases of culpable homicide that warranted life imprisonment.The man's lawyer, Mr Mervyn Cheong, argued that a life term was not warranted.He noted that neither the prosecution nor the defence appealed against the individual sentence for the culpable homicide charge, and that 35 years was a lengthy sentence. Read more