An Indonesian domestic helper appeared in court yesterday accused of trying to put menstrual blood in her employer’s food. Indra Ningsih, 26, was charged with one count of administering a poison or other destructive or noxious substance with an intent to injure.
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Menstrual blood ‘fed to employer’
Joyce Man
16 April 2009
An Indonesian domestic helper appeared in court yesterday accused of trying to put menstrual blood in her employer’s food. Indra Ningsih, 26, was charged with one count of administering a poison or other destructive or noxious substance with an intent to injure.
According to details on the charge sheet, Ningsih attempted to feed menstrual blood to her employer, a woman named Mok I-mui, at Ms Mok’s 19th-floor flat at Ocean Shores in Tiu Keng Leng on Tuesday.
Ningsih appeared at Kwun Tong Court before Magistrate Amanda Woodcock.
No plea was taken.
She said she understood the charge after an Indonesian interpreter read it to her.
The case has been adjourned to May 13 in the same court to allow time for prosecutors to receive a report on the blood from a government chemical laboratory and request legal advice.
Ningsih was remanded in custody. She did not object.
The Indonesian was listed as having no fixed abode on the charge sheet. Prosecutors said her employer, Ms. Mok, had forbidden her from returning to her flat, hence denying Ningsih a place of residence.
Ningsih said through her defence counsel that she would like to call her employment agent but could not, because the police were holding her purse, which contained the agent’s contact details.
Her defence counsel requested permission for Ningsih to be given access to her purse. Ms. Woodcock granted permission for her to be given access to it.
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