Maid jailed for mixing urine with tea

Maid jailed for mixing urine with tea

SINGAPORE: An Indonesian maid was jailed for 10 weeks in Singapore for lacing the tea and coffee she served her employers with her urine, a report said on Friday.

Yuliana Tukiran, 21, told a court she had hoped her act would speed up her being sent back to Indonesia, the Straits Times said.

On several occasions between Feb. 6 and March 17, the maid's employers noticed an odd taste to their coffee and tea.

Magistrate Gilbert Low, who handed down the sentence, described her act as "disgusting" and pointed out it could have spread disease to her employers.

There are about 140,000 maids in Singapore, with one in seven households employing one. --AFP