Fresh charge for woman who harassed nurse during pandemic
Shaffiq Alkhatib for The Straits Times
A woman who has a history of committing offences including harassment and mischief has been charged with causing annoyance to others.
Lim Sok Lay, 53, who appeared in a district court on July 19, is now accused of shouting and gesticulating in Edgefield Plains in Punggol between 8.30am and 9am on July 18.
Another woman, identified as Jolene Cheang Wan Ling, 28, was also charged with committing a similar offence there on July 18.
Court documents did not disclose how the two women were linked to each other and their cases have been adjourned to Aug 1.
Lim had harassed her neighbour during the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020.
She also created a ruckus during her adult son's lion dance competition in 2023, by acts including pouring coffee on a lion dance costume and kicking the head of the "lion".
She and her husband first made the headlines when they harassed their neighbour, who was a hospital nurse, and his family in 2020.
The couple had shouted "Covid", "Covid spreader", "virus" and "virus family" at them. Lim also sprayed liquid disinfectant in their direction.
In February 2022, she was fined $4,000, while her husband, Cheang Eng Hock, was fined $1,200.
Separately, Lim was fined $4,000 in February 2025 for other offences, including disrupting her adult son's lion dance competition in July 2023 and causing more than $1,300 in damage to a costume.
Cheang Eng Hock, then 60, who also created a ruckus during the competition, was fined $3,000 in April.
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