SINGAPORE: A 63-year-old woman who stole a gold chain worth S$ 5, 000 ( US$ 3, 785 ) from a 76-year-old man as he showered in a hotel room in Geylang was fined S$ 5, 000 by a court on Thursday ( Aug 15 ).
After much argument in the courtroom over whether Chen Ronghua had picked up the network or stolen it, Chen Ronghua pleaded guilty to one robbery matter. Her sister’s statements in the open gallery urged her to say guilt.
The prosecutor was informed that Chen had planned to travel back to Hong Kong on August 1st because she had run out of money.
On July 31 around 1pm, she met the Singaporean target near Geylang for breakfast. For S$ 40, the couple agreed that Chen did rub the man.
Before taking a shower, the old gentleman removed his gold ring and put it in his case in a hotel room.
While he was showering, Chen stole the ring and left the hotel, heading to where she was staying at Lorong 22, Geylang.
She left Changi Airport with the metal chain in her bag the day before boarding a flight that was scheduled to depart Hong Kong.
When the target came out of the bathroom, he realised Chen was not there. He later , realised his golden chain was missing and called the police.
Chen had already made a reservation at a motel in Geylang because she was unable to purchase a room close to Changi Airport.
Around 6.40pm on July 31, the officers discovered her in Geylang and detained her. The victim received the silver ring when it was recovered.
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On Thursday, Chen turned up in court with her girl. She repeatedly claimed to have “picked up” the ring rather than stolen it while Mandarin interpreter asked her a number of questions.
She claimed to have called the police to gain the ring.
She added that she wanted to know the sentence because she was worried about it, and that she wanted to go back to Hong Kong as soon as possible to get health care for a state she had.
Her sister sat in the mostly empty open gallery and gave her directions in Chinese as Chen sat in the port, answering questions from the prosecutor and speaker, while her sister spoke Taiwanese.
Even when supplementary police officials shushed her, she kept asking her to “plead innocent.”
Chen could not make her own decisions in the judge’s decision.
” There should not be any intervention from members of the gallery”, she said. ” Then, they need to step up and stay out”.
She was told her phone may get confiscated if it rang again, and she was forced to leave the court after Chen’s girl continued to shriek at Chen and her cellphone rang loudly several times.
Chen finally accepted the assertion of facts.
However, she has yet to pay the fine as Friday night. She will have to serve two weeks in default jail if she does n’t find the money.
The penalties for fraud is a prison term of up to three years, a great, or both.