Credit-card fraud review: New conditions include no shopping unless family member is with her
By
Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
Low has to comply with the new conditions laid down yesterday on top of those imposed on her in May. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
A COURT on Tuesday laid down tougher new conditions that dethroned beauty queen Ris Low, 19, has to comply with for the next year-and-a-half.
WHO IS RIS?
* Ris Low, 19, started making the rounds as a beauty pageant hopeful on the Internet when a Razor TV video was posted on July 8 prior to her winning Miss Singapore World on July 31.
* The newspapers picked up the story about a month later on how she was being slammed by netizens for her poor spoken English and coinage of the word 'boomz'.
Among the rules listed during a hearing to review her probation over credit-card fraud was one that bars her from going shopping unless she is accompanied by a family member.
Another is that she takes her medication for her bipolar disorder regularly and continue with her treatment. Her mother is tasked with overseeing this.
These conditions come on top of existing ones imposed on her in May, when she was put on 24 months' supervised probation.
Since then, she has had to, among other things, observe a curfew and be on her best behaviour, failing which her parents will lose the $5,000 bond they posted to guarantee her good behaviour.
Low, crowned Miss Singapore World on July 31, had taken credit cards belonging to seven people and used them to chalk up $8,000 worth of shopping and dining expenses last year.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
