Singapore: Additional five weeks’ jail for ‘sovereign’ woman who hurled insults at judge during trial

The jail term is in addition to an eight-week jail sentence meted out to Tarchandi Tan on July 25, 2023. - PHOTO: ST FILE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A woman who caused a ruckus during a trial in a district court in 2021, and spat at police officers who arrested her a year later, was on Friday given five weeks’ jail for insulting a judge.

This is in addition to an eight-week jail sentence meted out on July 25, over the spitting incident and repeatedly failing to obey orders from the authorities even though she was legally bound to do so.