Nov 24, 2010
Jail for cheating with false chits
By Elena Chong
A WOMAN who duped hospital staff into giving her medications by submitting false chits was jailed a total of six weeks on Wednesday for cheating. Sue Yu Ting, 25, was also fined $500 for stealing food items at Shop N Save supermarket at Tampines Street 32.
She pleaded guilty to the shop theft on Aug 5 and five counts of cheating pharmacists at Changi General Hospital, into believing that she had a valid prescription form given by a doctor and inducing them to hand over the medications as stated.
Investigations showed that she had filled up a CGH prescription form manually each time to get her medications from the pharmacist on duty between May and August, 2010. Sue, who is unemployed, was found by the Institute of Mental Health to be suffering from nicotine and opioid dependence with a past history of substance-induced depression.
Sixteen other cheating charges were taken into consideration. She could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined on each charge of cheating. For theft, she could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined.
