FOR sending this threat to an Indonesian maid via SMS on May 17,
Mohammed Abul Hossain Aynal Hoque, 30, was jailed two weeks. The
previous day, an Indonesian maid was found dead in a water tank in
Woodlands and the suspect was a Bangladeshi.
A district court heard on Friday that the complete SMS message
read: 'Resty do you know. Yesterday what happen Singapore, 1 bangla
kil 1 indo. i can folo that.'
'Resty' referred to Ms Atih Restianingsih, a 26-year-old
Indonesian maid. She got to know Hoque in February last year
through her aunt, who was also a domestic worker here.
In the first few months, she and the Bangladeshi electrician
would talk daily over the phone and she told him her residential
telephone number and other personal information. She stopped
answering his calls and messages in September as he pestered her
for sex.
After several months of being ignored by her, Hoque decided to
threaten to kill her. The court heard that on the day he sent his
text message, newspapers carried news of the case of the dead maid
in the water tank.
-- ST