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</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : end --></TD></TR><TR><TD>A modelling agency boss now, he fails to get case settled out of court </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- Author --></TD></TR><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
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Chow allegedly molested the pub employee in January 2007. He is accused of stroking her thigh and groping her under her blouse, among other things. -- ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MODELLING agency boss and former television actor Mark Chow yesterday failed in a bid to have a molestation charge settled out of court.
District Judge Sarjit Singh, upon hearing the submission by Deputy Public Prosecutor Adrian Loo, turned down 29-year-old Chow's request on public interest grounds.
The trial then went ahead with one witness being called before the hearing was stood down until today.
DPP Loo had argued that Chow was unremorseful about having allegedly molested the 25-year-old operations manager of a pub in January 2007.
Chow, the founder of modelling agency M.C. Models, had also given no indication that he wanted to compound the case, said DPP Loo.
Four other charges, involving his having allegedly outraged the modesty of another 24-year-old woman, have been stood down by the prosecution.
The five molestation charges were first filed in August last year.
Chow, who starred in the 1998 Channel 8 drama A Piece of Sky and in the 1999 film Street Angel, has been accused of patting the former pub employee on her rear, stroking her thigh and groping her under her blouse, among other things.
He is said to have committed these acts in the third-floor office of the downtown pub, where the woman had gone to rest as she was drunk.
The owner of the pub, which cannot be named to protect the alleged victim's identity, testified that he went up to the office when a customer told him Chow was there.
He walked Chow downstairs, but heard later that the modelling agency boss had made his way up there again.
Later, he was informed by the woman that she had been molested. He said he calmed her down and suggested that they check the recording from the closed-circuit TV.
In the 30-minute recording shown in court yesterday, she was seen pushing Chow away and hitting him.
After his testimony, Chow's lawyer Alan Moh sought a short adjournment before cross-examining the pub owner. He and lawyer Zaminder Singh Gill also spoke to Chow outside the courtroom.
If convicted, Chow faces up to two years' jail or a fine or caning or any two of these punishments.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : end --></TD></TR><TR><TD>A modelling agency boss now, he fails to get case settled out of court </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- Author --></TD></TR><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
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Chow allegedly molested the pub employee in January 2007. He is accused of stroking her thigh and groping her under her blouse, among other things. -- ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MODELLING agency boss and former television actor Mark Chow yesterday failed in a bid to have a molestation charge settled out of court.
District Judge Sarjit Singh, upon hearing the submission by Deputy Public Prosecutor Adrian Loo, turned down 29-year-old Chow's request on public interest grounds.
The trial then went ahead with one witness being called before the hearing was stood down until today.
DPP Loo had argued that Chow was unremorseful about having allegedly molested the 25-year-old operations manager of a pub in January 2007.
Chow, the founder of modelling agency M.C. Models, had also given no indication that he wanted to compound the case, said DPP Loo.
Four other charges, involving his having allegedly outraged the modesty of another 24-year-old woman, have been stood down by the prosecution.
The five molestation charges were first filed in August last year.
Chow, who starred in the 1998 Channel 8 drama A Piece of Sky and in the 1999 film Street Angel, has been accused of patting the former pub employee on her rear, stroking her thigh and groping her under her blouse, among other things.
He is said to have committed these acts in the third-floor office of the downtown pub, where the woman had gone to rest as she was drunk.
The owner of the pub, which cannot be named to protect the alleged victim's identity, testified that he went up to the office when a customer told him Chow was there.
He walked Chow downstairs, but heard later that the modelling agency boss had made his way up there again.
Later, he was informed by the woman that she had been molested. He said he calmed her down and suggested that they check the recording from the closed-circuit TV.
In the 30-minute recording shown in court yesterday, she was seen pushing Chow away and hitting him.
After his testimony, Chow's lawyer Alan Moh sought a short adjournment before cross-examining the pub owner. He and lawyer Zaminder Singh Gill also spoke to Chow outside the courtroom.
If convicted, Chow faces up to two years' jail or a fine or caning or any two of these punishments.
[email protected]
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