Jail for ex-Miss Universe Singapore contestant who used friends' card details to shop online


Ashley Rita Wong Kai Lin had committed the offences in 2016 after a break-up with her boyfriend.- ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A former Miss Universe Singapore contestant who memorised her friends' debit card details and used these to spend S$2,000 online was on Thursday (Feb 11) sentenced to six weeks' jail.

Ashley Rita Wong Kai Lin, 27, had pleaded guilty in December last year to four counts of accessing materials on a computer without authority. The charges involved about $1,000 in total.

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