This would not happened if they had digEplayers
So easy to use, no personal instruction necessary. Either that or the ladies could have whacked them up side the head with the digEplayer. LOL
Passenger groped two SIA stewardesses
Japanese man fined $4,500 for behaviour on Seoul to S'pore flight
By Selina Lum
A JAPANESE man was yesterday fined $4,500 for molesting a stewardess and using criminal force on another on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight.
Tomonori Daimon, 29, who oversees the South-east Asian market for his company, was on flight SQ 17 from Seoul to Singapore on March 14 when he laid hands on the women.
He pleaded guilty to using criminal force on a 21-year-old stewardess by holding her hips, and outraging the modesty of a 29-year-old stewardess by squeezing her buttocks.
A third charge, of using criminal force on the younger woman, was taken into consideration.
A district court heard that Daimon suddenly put his hands on the 21-year-old's hips while he was walking behind her in the narrow passageway outside a toilet.
About 30 minutes later, he walked past the older woman and squeezed her right buttock as she was showing another passenger how to operate the in-flight entertainment system.
Both women lodged a complaint through the captain, who radioed Changi Airport for assistance. Daimon was arrested when the plane landed.
Yesterday, his lawyer, Mr Irving Choh, asked district judge Kow Keng Siong not to jail his client, citing numerous cases of men who were fined for 'relatively minor acts' of molestation.
The lawyer said his client, who is married with a two-year-old daughter, had no previous criminal record. His wife is pregnant with their second child.
Daimon had had a little too much to drink, hence the cavalier behaviour, said Mr Choh.
He added that Daimon apologised to the cabin crew after the incident.
The judge noted that a jail term was usually given when the victim was put in fear and when the molestation takes place in a confined space or in the wee hours of the morning.
'In this case, the offence was committed in full view of other persons,' he said, before handing down a $4,000 fine for outrage of modesty and a $500 fine for the use of criminal force.
