by Khushwant Singh
A CASHIER, who lost her job at NTUC Fairprice last year and
defaced walls and cars near the supermarket branch in Serangoon
Central, was jailed for six months on Tuesday.
Susan Lim Fong, 35, had scrawled obscenities and statements such
as 'Fairprice anyhow sack people' and 'Fairprice give top people
big bonus to gamble ... give lower small $$'.
A district court heard that she did this on six occasions
between last November and January this year.
Representing Lim under the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme, Ms
Christina Goh said that her client sank into depression after
losing her job and regretted committing the offences.
The lawyer also said that Lim, who is in the process of
divorcing her husband, is the sole breadwinner of her two sons,
aged 9 and 13. As the jail term was backdated to the date Lim was
remanded in January, she would be released today.
District Judge Wong Li Tien also made arrangements for Lim to
attend a community court conference on Monday so that she had her
family may receive financial support and counselling from welfare
agencies.