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Singapore authorities requested for Roach to be repatriated back to Singapore, but the request fell through as Singapore and Thailand had no treaty to allow such extraditions. At the same time, Canadian authorities wanted to extradite Roach back to Canada, given that Thailand and Canada had an existing extradition treaty. Instead, Thai authorities decided to charge and sentence Roach for violating currency regulations and money laundering. Roach, who had failed to declare that he possessed more than US$ 20,000 in assets upon arriving in Thailand, was initially sentenced to 2 years and 4 months of jail, but it was halved to 14 months after he confessed to the money laundering charges. The money,
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Singapore. Roach was assessed by two psychiatrists to have major depressive disorder, and it was a "contributory factor" in committing the robbery. On 7 July 2021, he was sentenced to
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Roach was caught on 9 July 2016 in his hostel in
Bangkok, after Singapore authorities had alerted their Thai counterparts. As Singapore had issued a warrant of arrest for Roach, Thailand cancelled his rights to stay in the country, and detained him for seven days in an immigration detention centre.
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On the morning of 7 July 2016, Roach entered the bank. He approached a pregnant bank teller with a note which read, "This is a robbery, I have a weapon, give me money, don't call the police." Believing that he had a weapon, the teller handed Roach a sum of S$ 30,450. Roach then fled the scene on
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on Roach when found guilty. Roach was sentenced to five years' jail and six strokes of cane on 7 July 2021. The caning was subsequently remitted through the exercise of the
President's clemency powers, thus fulfilling the promise to the British government.
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British authorities and was then extradited to Singapore in 2020 for bank robbery and removing criminal proceeds from Singapore. The extradition carried a promise to the British government of not meting out
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five years' in prison and six strokes of the cane, after pleading guilty to the two charges. The prison sentence was backdated to when he was first remanded in March 2020. No restitution was made by Roach.
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Roach changed out of his clothes upon exiting from the bank, and boarded a taxi several minutes later. The taxi brought him back to his hostel where he collected his personal belongings and left for
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approved the extradition. Roach further appealed against the judgement, but failed to secure a favourable outcome in
February 2020. Roach was extradited to Singapore on 16 March 2020.
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granted Roach clemency and remitted his caning sentence, thus fulfilling the promise made to the
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