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Nigel Skea, right, and his now wife, Agatha Maghesh Eyamalai, arrive at the state court in Singapore. Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty
Nigel Skea, right, and his now wife, Agatha Maghesh Eyamalai, arrive at the state court in Singapore. Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty
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Fri 26 Feb 2021 03.56 EST
A British man has been sentenced to two weeks in jail and fined just over £540 for breaking a coronavirus quarantine order in Singapore to visit his fiancee.
Nigel Skea, 52, from Southampton, is the first Briton to be jailed for flouting coronavirus rules in the city-state.
Skea left his room at the Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore on three occasions last September, according to charge sheets. He was not wearing a mask. On one occasion, he climbed an emergency stairwell and entered a room that his Singaporean fiancee had booked. They spent nine hours together.
A Singapore court sent a British man to prison for leaving his quarantine hotel room to see his fiancée upstairs
INSIDER 2/26/2021 insider@insider.com (Bill Bostock)
Singapore requires all new arrivals to quarantine in a hotel room for 14 days.
Last September, Nigel Skea took his quarantine hotel s emergency stairs to sneak a visit to his fiancée.
Skea was caught, pleaded guilty, and on Friday was given two weeks in jail and a $753 fine.
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Nigel Skea, 52, used the emergency staircase at the Ritz Carlton Millenia Singapore Hotel to visit Agatha Maghesh Eyamalai, 39, in September last year, the BBC reported.
Singapore court sends Indian-origin woman to jail for breaching Covid-19 protocol
Singapore court sends Indian-origin woman to jail for breaching Covid-19 protocol
An Indian-origin woman and her British husband were sent to prison in Singapore for breaking Covid-19 quarantine rules.
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UPDATED: February 26, 2021 14:44 IST
The 39-year-old woman had broken Covid-19 protocols to meet her then-fiance at a hotel where he was staying under quarantine | Representative image by Pixabay
A Singapore court on Friday sent an Indian-origin woman and her British husband to prison for breaking the country’s quarantine rules. Thirty-nine-year-old Agatha Maghesh Eyamalai was sentenced to one week in prison, while her husband Nigel Skea, 52, was sentenced to two weeks’ jail and slapped with a fine of 1,000 Singapore Dollar (USD 752), local media reported.