Brittany
2009-01-11 05:13:15 UTC
By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
A FRENCH psychiatrist who was on transit in Singapore was jailed a day
and fined $2,000 on Monday for stealing a pair of sunglasses at Changi
Airport.
Christele Denise Simone Gandie Espalieu, 44, pleaded guilty to
filching a pair of Porsche Design sunglasses worth $560 at Luxury
Fashion Shop at Changi Airport departure transit hall last Saturday.
The court heard that she arrived at about 7.30am from Paris enroute to
Phuket.
About an hour later, a store assistant of the shop saw her removing
the sunglasses from the display shelf and placed it inside her
handbag.
She was detained when she walked out of the shop without paying for
it.
She could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined for theft.
URL: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_319615.html
A FRENCH psychiatrist who was on transit in Singapore was jailed a day
and fined $2,000 on Monday for stealing a pair of sunglasses at Changi
Airport.
Christele Denise Simone Gandie Espalieu, 44, pleaded guilty to
filching a pair of Porsche Design sunglasses worth $560 at Luxury
Fashion Shop at Changi Airport departure transit hall last Saturday.
The court heard that she arrived at about 7.30am from Paris enroute to
Phuket.
About an hour later, a store assistant of the shop saw her removing
the sunglasses from the display shelf and placed it inside her
handbag.
She was detained when she walked out of the shop without paying for
it.
She could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined for theft.
URL: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_319615.html