TO ENTICE their customers to buy them drinks, three Filipinas
bared their breasts in a Duxton pub.
On Friday, Bernadeth Sonido, 35; Michelle Alejo Bacorro, 28, and
Ma Lourdes Dela Cruz, 26, were fined $1,000 each.
A district court heard that on June 5 last year, the three
foreigners were working as performing artistes at the Knights Pub
& Karaoke along Duxton Road. At about 1am, the trio asked the
three men they were sitting with to buy them ladies' drinks so they
could earn commissions.
To encourage the men to do so, the Filipinas pulled down their
blouses and exposed their breasts and nipples. The customers turned
out to be undercover police officers and the women were
arrested.
Asking the court to impose a light fine, the women's lawyer
Gurdaib Singh said that his clients regretted committing the
offences. They were also unlikely to be allowed to return to
Singapore by the immigration authorities, he added.
The three women could have been fined up to $2,000 each and/or
jailed for up to three months.
-- ST
