March 8, 2015 7:00am by David Farrar

They won’t do that again

The world was reminded once again of South East Asia’s tough stance on crime when two German men were sentenced on Thursday to nine months jail and caning for vandalism in Singapore.

Andreas Von Knorre, 22, and Elton Hinz, 21, broke into a suburban train depot and spray-painted graffiti on the exterior metro (MRT) train cabin in November 2014.

They did graffiti in Singapore? And not spur of the moment stuff, but a deliberate break in. How moronic are they?

Both men expressed remorse in court when they were being sentenced at the Singapore State Courts.

“This is the darkest episode of my entire life,” Von Knorre said.

“I want to apologise to the state of Singapore for the stupid act.”

Hinz also promised the courts “he will never do it again”.

I bet they won’t.