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THE former general manager of Hotel Grand Central in Cavenagh Road is fighting accusations that he molested a young woman after slipping her Zolpidem, a powerful sleeping pill that can be prescribed only by doctors.
Tan Hwa Kok, 44, who resigned from his job around the middle of last year, is said to have doped the 23-year-old Malaysian woman who had gone to his hotel to look for a job. He is accused of kissing her lips and licking her private parts in a hotel room at about 11.30am on Feb 5 last year.
The woman's 24-year-old best friend, who has been on the stand since the hearing began on Monday, told the court earlier that her friend had stayed at the hotel for free for the job interview.
Some time before 2pm, the sales assistant got an SMS from her friend, asking her to go immediately to her hotel room. There, she found the younger woman looking pale and walking unsteadily, and Tan subsequently came out of the toilet.
She told the court that her friend said Tan could have spiked the herbal tea he had bought her.
Earlier in her evidence, she said she had first got to know Tan when she was working as a waitress in a restaurant that he patronised. They exchanged phone numbers and later dated.
