UK court clears way for StanChart robbery suspect's extradition

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Later that month, Singapore gave the assurance to Britain that Roach would not be caned even if he is convicted of robbery, a crime which carries mandatory caning here.

British laws prohibit the authorities from extraditing Roach without such an assurance. Britain abolished caning as a punishment for criminals in 1948.

Note also how the CCTV that identified him as the criminal was powerless in preventing him from escaping to another country where our laws have no jurisdiction over....At the end of the day, we still need the police to go down to arrest the criminals; technology can only do so much in facilitating law-enforcers.

Qns: 
1. To what extent is it possible ‘to make the punishment fit the crime’? (Cam. 2013)
2. To what extent has technology had an impact on both privacy and security in your country? (Cam. 2009)