Chinese national jailed for overstaying and bribery
By Alvina Soh | Posted: 12 January 2012 1200 hrs
SINGAPORE: A Chinese national who was caught for overstaying tried to get out of it by bribing a police officer with sex.
For that, 25-year-old Guo Cheng Cheng was jailed eight months and fined S$3,000.
The unemployed woman first caught the attention of Police when she was allegedly involved in an assault on November 22 last year at New Bridge Road.
Guo was asked for her identification documents when police arrived on the scene.
Her social visit pass was found to have expired by more than a year.
She was informed by Sergeant Tong Ee Phor that she would be arrested and taken back to the police station.
Frightened, Guo pleaded for her release by telling Sergeant Tong she would "do anything for him, including offering her body."
She continued with her pleas all the way to the police station, where she was later told she would be arrested for bribery as well.
In her mitigation plea, the court heard that Guo "had no idea what kind of punishment awaited and at the moment of folly succumbed to such a foolish act."
Guo, whose father is retired and her mother a housewife, will return to China after completing her sentence here.
- CNA/fa
