Typically, when you read articles about people breaching stay-home notices (SHN), they left their houses or hotels to go and eat Bak Kut Teh or engage in hanky panky.
Staying two weeks or so indoors was seemingly too much for them to bear, which is why they chose to break the rules meant to safeguard the community.
In this instance, however, the offender didn’t leave his hotel but trespassed into someone else’s SHN facility.
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20YO Faces Charges for Trespassing into SHN Facility & Breaching Stay-Home Notice
On 28 Nov 2020, Sow Kaiser visited his friend for around an hour at a hotel.
This wouldn’t normally make the headlines, but that friend was serving an SHN at the hotel at the time.
Sow allegedly entered the hotel at about 3pm, using a lift to enter the hotel’s restricted area. He then took a service lift up to his friend’s room.
It was then that a security guard spotted him, but Sow fled the hotel before he could be nabbed.
He didn’t get away with his offences for too long, though.
Today (18 June), the 20-year-old was charged in court for trespassing into the premises of an SHN dedicated facility.
He was also charged for abetting the breach of SHN requirements by a person on SHN.
ST reported that Sow intends to admit to the charges. He is expected to return to court on 29 July.
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Can Be Jailed For Trespassing
Just for trespassing, Sow could face a jail term of up to three months, a fine of up to S$1,500, or both.
As for failing to comply with SHN requirements, the penalty may be a fine of up to S$10,000, imprisonment of up to six months, or both.
Woman Charged For Leaving House to Buy Boba
Ever since the pandemic began and the government introduced COVID-19 laws, countless cases of residents breaching SHN requirements have been reported.
In one particularly interesting case last year, a woman left her Woodlands Drive residence to buy bubble tea at Causeway Point on 23 March while she was on an SHN.
Worse, she later contracted COVID-19, which meant she put the people with who she came into contact with, outside her house in danger.
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This is why SHNs exist.
Even though consuming bubble tea is so essential to a Singaporean’s life, the authorities took the offence seriously and charged the woman for the breach.
And whether it’s for bubble tea, hanky panky, or Bak Kut Teh, the punishment is always the same.
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