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SINGAPORE: A woman repeatedly violated COVID-19 rules prohibiting social gatherings during the “circuit breaker” and failed to pay for the composition or extrajudicial fines that were imposed on her.
Tuan Siti Aishah Tuan Ab Rahman, 20, was fined S $ 4,000 in court on Wednesday (October 14) on two counts of meeting with people outside her home for a social purpose. Three other similar charges were taken into consideration in his guilty plea.
The court heard that Siti was invited by a friend to meet four other people on an empty terrace in Bedok on the night of May 8. At the time, the circuit breaker was still in place, preventing people from meeting other people socially for not doing so. -Essential reasons.
She agreed because she “felt bored at home,” and met the five people on the empty deck in Block 408, Bedok North Avenue 2, where they chatted and sang.
A resident called the police at 4.23 am saying “they are still singing” and “they are not supposed to sleep here”, referring to Siti and her friends.
When a police officer arrived, he found the group talking among themselves and laughing uproariously. They admitted that they were having a social gathering and were aware of the rules.
Investigations revealed that this was Siti’s third violation of COVID-19 regulations and that he had not made any payments for his composition fines.
He relapsed again on May 20 during a shopping trip with his mother. He had seen three friends at a McDonald’s in Bedok and stopped to chat with them while he waited for his mother to finish shopping.
An informant called the police to report that several people were “sitting there without masks and tore the tapes.” The police arrived to see Siti with her three friends.
This was his fourth offense and he had yet to make any payment for his composition fines.
Assistant District Attorney Emily Koh asked for a fine of at least S $ 4,000, saying Siti had reunited with her friends for a “frivolous and completely unnecessary purpose” on Bedok’s empty deck.
The meeting was loud and upset at least one resident, resulting in a 999 call in the early hours.
Siti also knew that she was meeting with five other people, showing that she “did not take social distancing measures seriously,” Ms Koh said.
Siti, who was not represented, asked to be allowed to pay her fine in installments. The judge responded by saying that “Siti’s story does not show that you are very good at following orders.”
Siti said she had just started a job that paid S $ 300 and that her mother had no money to pay the fine Wednesday.
The judge allowed him to make the payment before Thursday. If you don’t pay the fine, you can be imprisoned for eight days.
For each count of violating a COVID-19 regulation, Siti could have been jailed for up to six months, fined up to S $ 10,000, or both.
