public transport network over the following six months. PTSC, chaired by the Land Transport Authority (LTA), is a multi-agency committee formed in 2004 to ensure that security reviews, recommendations and improvements are made to enhance public transport security. On 27 June 2010, the LTA said it was assessing whether to impose penalties on SMRT for the security breach. Appeal Fricker appealed against the two-month jail sentence for trespassing. He argued that it should have been ordered to run concurrently with the three-month jail sentence for vandalism, with the effect that he should only serve three months' imprisonment altogether. The prosecution cross-appealed, arguing that the jail term for trespass was manifestly inadequate. The case was heard on 18 August 2010. Judge of Appeal V. K. Rajah increased Fricker's jail sentence for trespassing from two months to four and declined to order that it should run concurrently with the vandalism sentence, making his total sentence of imprisonment seven months. The judge stated that, had the prosecution appealed the vandalism sentence, he probably would have increased that too. He said Fricker should "count himself fortunate that he has not received his just deserts in full". Fricker's act, he noted, must be "unequivocally deplored", while like-minded offenders must be deterred from copycat offending. At the appeal, the prosecution was given permission to adduce additional evidence to the effect that in 2001 Fricker had been convicted in Switzerland of multiple incidents of damaging public property. However, the Court said that it did not take this into consideration as the prosecution had provided insufficient information about the earlier conviction. Fricker's caning, postponed pending the appeal, would now be carried out. Release Fricker was released from Changi Prison on 15 November 2010 after spending less than five months in jail, having received one-third remission for good behaviour. He immediately flew back to Zurich, where he was arrested by police for suspected graffiti offences in Switzerland. See also Michael P. Fay, who was sentenced to six strokes of the cane (later reduced to four) in 1994. Utah & Ether, who vandalised another train depot in August 2011 undetected until a book on their vandalistic acts was published in 2016. Notes External links by ongyouyuan1907 showing the vandalized MRT train Caning in Singapore Crime in Singapore 2010 crimes in Singapore