SINGAPORE: While in transit at Singapore’s Changi Airport waiting for a trip to Bali, a lady went on a robbery binge over an hour and forty hours, filching makeup, neck pillows and other products worth more than S$ 600 from various shops.
Tanya Bridget Hughes, 36, was fined S$ 5, 000 ( US$ 3, 840 ) by a court on Thursday ( Sep 5 ) for her crimes.
She pleaded guilty to three works of fraud, with another five costs taken into consideration.
The jury heard that Hughes, a British national, was at Changi Airport’s Terminal 4 on May 31 awaiting a 4.10pm trip to Bali.
Around 1 p.m., she visited the Shilla Cosmetics and Perfumes Outlet at Terminal 4 Departure Transit Central and perused the Estee Lauder items.
She threw away a package of eye cream items worth more than S$ 158 in her purse. She therefore purchased two more items from another part and paid for them at the cashier, but she left without getting the eye cream.
Hughes next went to Charles &, Keith, where she stole a dark head bag and its attached pocket, for over S$ 82.
The Daily Stoic and Atomic Habits, both of which were taken into account, were later stolen from the WHSmith text business, totaling nearly S$ 37.
She even stole , two throat pillows for about S$ 50 each and two boxes of chocolates for about S$ 46 in full at 7-Eleven,  , four tubes of La Roche Posay sun block and moisturiser worth a total of approximately S$ 154, and , a S$ 59.90 water tumbler from The Coffee Bean &, Tea Leaf
Hughes ‘ drug use was ended when she was apprehended and arrested for it.
SENTENCING Claims
The attorney sought a great of at least S$ 5, 000 for her. He said the army was asking for a good that was about S$ 2, 000 less, but stressed that S$ 5, 000 was “already very liberal”.
He claimed that Hughes was initially charged with eight fraud counts under Section 380 and was facing a mandatory jail term, which may make things worse because she had to” she stole so many things,” and the crimes were difficult to identify.
However, the fees “are now reduced” and the trial is seeking a good.
” That in itself is leniency”, said the attorney. ” S$ 5, 000 is lenient because it’s not going to be crushing on the accused. The accused has sustained herself in Singapore on rental income and, along the way, managed to find esteemed legal guidance.
He urged that the great been at least S$ 5,000.
Hughes ‘ solicitor, Mr Jeremy Mark Pereira from Withers KhattarWong, apologised to the judge for his client being delayed, as” two of the Grab vehicles she booked cancelled on her”.
” At the outset, my client is greatly ashamed and guilty for her conduct. She has never been in trouble with the law anywhere in the world, according to Mr. Pereira.
He said Hughes “has problems” she requires drugs for, without specifying what they were.
” She knows what she’s done is bad. One of the first things she did was go to a lawyer’s office to get help, adding that his customer is committed to “never offending once.”
He acknowledged the prosecution’s apology and reduction of the costs in written form.
Ong Chin Rhu, the assistant director district judge, told Hughes that she had taken into account the circumstances surrounding the offenses she had committed, but that she also needed to consider” the level of your crime in the way you conducted yourself that day.”
She said the good proposed by the trial was “reasonable” and imposed it.
Hughes paid the entire good.
For each matter of robbery, she could have been jailed for up to three years, fined, or both.