What started as a viral photo of her then helper cleaning a second-storey glass awning turned into a nearly three-year legal battle for Mrs Belinda Huber, who also had to put up with online vitriol and accusatory stares.
The 37-year-old Australian had insisted from the start that she never told Filipina Taculad Rose Mae Mata to climb onto the awning of her Goldhill Avenue house near Dunearn Road. But that June 2017 photo of the domestic worker, barefoot and scrubbing away, convinced many people including investigators that she had done so.
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