Will she get deported and ban from entering?
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Han, who has been in remand for 13 days, appeared in court via video-link from prison. She did not have a lawyer and attended the proceedings with the help of a Mandarin interpreter.
The long-haired, bespectacled woman appeared a shadow of her feisty self as she stood up during her mitigation plea and bowed, saying in English: “I’m sorry.”
Pronouncing the sentence to a packed courtroom, Deputy Principal District Judge Luke Tan said the hospital worker whom Han had railed against had only been trying to help her.
Calling her behaviour loutish and belligerent, Judge Tan said: “There was simply no excuse for her behaviour, for shouting abusive words at the victim.”
Prosecutors from the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) proceeded with five charges against her. These were for being a public nuisance, using abusive language against a public servant, using abusive words and using criminal force on a security officer, and for lying in her work permit application.
Han faced eight charges in total. Three other charges of using criminal force on a security officer, using abusive language against a public servant, and moonlighting as a freelance hostess without a valid work pass for about two months were taken into consideration.
Following her conviction, Han’s work pass will be revoked, and she will be permanently barred from working in Singapore, MOM said on Wednesday.
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In her mitigation plea, read aloud by the interpreter, Han said she ought to have exercised tolerance and greater understanding of the facts as well as the law, and should not have reacted in the way she did.
She added that this was her first time living overseas, and she was unfamiliar with Singapore’s laws.
But prosecutors clarified that Han had entered Singapore on at least four occasions since 2019, to which she replied it was only for short holidays.
After hearing the sentence, Han added: “I’m sorry for causing inconvenience to everyone. I will take this opportunity as a lesson learnt (and) I will not reoffend in future.”