Fresh charge for woman who harassed nurse during pandemic, created ruckus at lion dance competition
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Lim Sok Lay, 53, is now accused of shouting and gesticulating in Edgefield Plains in Punggol between 8.30am and 9am on July 18.
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- Lim Sok Lay appeared in court and was charged on July 19.
- Lim previously made headlines for harassing her neighbour, who was a nurse, amid the Covid-19 outbeak in 2020.
- Lim was also fined $4,000 in February 2025 after disrupting her son's lion dance competition in 2023.
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SINGAPORE - 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
She also created a ruckus during her adult son’s lion dance competition in 2023,
She and her husband first made the headlines when they harassed their neighbour
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
