Woman who went on theft spree at Changi Airport during transit gets fine

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Woman who went on theft spree at Changi Airport during transit gets fine
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Over an hour and forty minutes, Tanya Bridget Hughes stole items worth more than S$600 from multiple shops while in transit in Singapore, including cosmetics, books and a bag.

New: You can now listen to articles.SINGAPORE: While in transit at Singapore's Changi Airport waiting for a flight to Bali, a woman went on a theft spree over an hour and forty minutes, filching cosmetics, neck pillows and other items worth more than S$600 from various shops.

She took a pack of eye cream products worth more than S$158 and concealed them in her bag. She then took two other products from another section and paid for these at the cashier, but left without paying for the eye cream. She also stole two neck pillows worth about S$50 each and two trays of chocolates worth about S$46 in total at 7-Eleven, four tubes of La Roche Posay sun block and moisturiser worth a total of about S$154, and a S$59.90 water tumbler from The Coffee Bean & Tea LeafThe prosecutor sought a fine of at least S$5,000 for her. He said the defence was asking for a fine that was about S$2,000 less, but stressed that S$5,000 was"already very lenient".

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