
SINGAPORE - A blood test on the woman who said she was drugged and molested in a hotel room last year came back negative for drugs, a district court heard yesterday.The Health Sciences Authority test was done on Feb 5 last year, the same day the 24-year-old woman alleged that she was given a spiked herbal tea drink and molested by former Grand Central Hotel general manager Tan Hwa Kok (picture).The toxicology report also did not find any trace of Zolpidem, the sleeping tablet which Tan, 44, allegedly gave the woman before he molested her.But the slim, long-haired woman from Kuching, Sarawak, seemed unconvinced by the results and asked how long it took for such toxins to leave her body."For this question, Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Benjamin Yim will be asking the experts ... I don't think any of us can answer," replied District Judge Ch'ng Lye Beng.Earlier, the court was shown seven SMS messages that Tan had reportedly sent the woman after the alleged incident. The messages were sent between 6.45pm and 8.45pm on Feb 5. In them, Tan admitted to being intimate with her. She also agreed to be his girlfriend, he claimed.But the court heard that in her SMS reply, she denied agreeing to be his girlfriend.Later that evening, the woman lodged a police report at the Singapore General Hospital, where she gave a blood sample to test for chemical substances in her body.A male friend from Kuching accompanied her, and later spent the night with her in the hotel, she said. They slept in the same room but on separate beds.During questioning, DPP Yim asked her why much of her report focused on the spiking incidents rather than the molestation."My main concern was my health status ... And also I would like to seek justice for myself," the woman said, through an interpreter."I'm not good at expressing myself ... I felt that the (molestation) was a result of the spiking incident, (but) I was more upset about the molest," she added.Tan and the woman met on Feb 3 after a female friend recommended her for a job at the hotel in Cavanagh Road. She claimed she felt "uneasy" but agreed to meet him for dinner the next day. She wanted to make a good impression as she was looking for a job at the hotel.They met in a pub at Clarke Quay before they had dinner and Tan allegedly slipped a white substance into her drink. The next day they met again - the day of the incident - and this time he spiked her tea, she claims. Tan, who is married with two children, also offered her money but did not say what it was for, she said.The hearing will resume on May 1
I think that if the man spiked that woman drink he should be responsible for his action. But he also must be responsible to his family as well. And if the woman is willing to be his girlfriend but she did not say she want to and then he is in a wrong at first that is a insult toward the woman and it also not fair to her