Filipina fined for threatening
manager
17/08/2007 The Star
KUALA LUMPUR: Filipina Ederlina Hampac Katzengruber was getting frustrated
over the time her condominium management was taking to fix her unit's
leaking roof.
To vent her frustration, Katzengruber confronted a manager with a knife and
threatened her.
For this Katzengruber, 38, was fined RM500 by a magistrate's court here
yesterday.
The incident happened at Jodie Monica Ho Mei Yi's office office in Jalan
Pantai Permai on Dec 11 last year.
The court was told that Katzengruber pointed the knife at Ho and told her
“Jodie, do you see this?”
She also said it was “easy to stab someone in the neck” and “don’t care
being put in the jail.”
She told Ho she was not satisfied with the condominium's management for
failing to repair her unit’s leaking roof for four days resulting in some
things she kept at her balcony to be wet.
Katzengruber lived in the unit with her Australian husband under the My
Second Home programme.
Ho lodged a police report the next day after learning that Katzengruber had
also threatened workers carrying out the repairs.
In the court yesterday, Katzengruber admitted to committing criminal
intimidation on Ho with the knife and putting her in fear that day.
Her lawyer Jagjit Singh said Katzengruber committed the offence due to
frustration with the management who failed to repair the roof using the
correct tiles.
“When she saw that different tiles were used (for repairs), she was upset
and asked them to bring the original tiles but nothing was done,” he said.
He said Katzengruber realised her mistake and that her 58-year-old husband
had even written an apology letter to the management.
Prosecuting officer C/Insp Suhaimi Kushairi, who confirmed that Katzengruber
was a first offender, asked the court to impose an appropriate sentence on
her. |