A woman who became angry after waiting outside a former colleague’s home for an hour without getting an answer borrowed a lighter from a stranger and set incense paper alight outside the unit.
She then kicked over a wooden chair, causing it to fall onto the burning paper.
The offender, Tong Huanling, a 34-year-old Chinese national, pleaded guilty to one charge of causing a fire. She was fined $3,000 on Nov 2.
Court documents revealed that Tong visited her former colleague’s home along Bukit Batok Street 21 at about 9.30pm on Jan 29.
Tong was unemployed at the time.
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When she visited her former colleague, the latter was overseas, and only her husband and daughter were at home.
After knocking on the door and receiving no response, Tong waited outside the flat for about an hour.
She then noticed lights being switched on inside the unit and proceeded to knock on the door and ring the doorbell again, but there was still no response.
Sets fire to incense paper
Believing that her former colleague was deliberately avoiding her, Tong decided to get her attention.
She retrieved a cardboard box containing incense paper from the void deck of the HDB block and placed it near the shoe rack beside the unit’s gate. She also borrowed a lighter from a stranger.
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