A dentist and his engineer wife have spent weeks behind bars after being caught brazenly stealing luxury goods in the famously strict country of Singapore.
US nationals Husain Zoher, 35, and Kapadia Amatullah, 30, were arrested onboard their flight heading to Mumbai, India, after shoplifting more than $750 (£561) worth of items from Louis Vuitton and Dior at Singapore's Changi Airport.
Singaporean authorities have said that the couple were caught red-handed on airport CCTV before being apprehended.
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The pair were quickly prosecuted and both pleaded guilty to theft charges.
Zoher was slapped with a 18-day prison sentence, with Amatullah jailed for one week.
State Prosecuting Officer Ng Chee Wee was present at the couple's sentencing and told the court that Zoher had "stolen out of greed".
Wee added: "He had a habit of overspending, and he did not want to pay."
The couple can consider themselves as being let off lightly, with theft in the wealthy city-state carrying a maximum punishment of three years in prison and a fine.
Zoher (left) and Amatullah (right) were quickly prosecuted and both pleaded guilty to theft charges
|Singapore is notorious for having one of the toughest justice systems in the world.
In the southeast Asian nation, people can face arrest for chewing gum, singing in public and not flushing a public toilet.
The former British colony has a particularly tough stance on drugs, with people caught taking illegal substances facing long prison stints and dozens of lashings with a cane.
Anyone caught involved in drug dealing faces the death penalty.
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Singaporean authorities say that the couple's thieving frenzy started in Changi Airport's Terminal 1 around 5pm at a Louis Vuitton store.
Zoher was captured on CCTV stealing a $600 (£449) credit card holder.
The pair's next target was Cosmetics & Perfumes by The Shilla, in Terminal 3, shortly after 5.40pm.
While his wife acted as a lookout, Zoher was spotted slipping a $160 (£120) bottle of Dior Sauvage perfume into his pocket.
Singaporean authorities say that the couple's thieving frenzy started in Changi Airport's Terminal 1
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In 2019, a British headmaster was sentenced to 10 months in a Singaporean jail for smoking methamphetamine.
Damien Michael Charnock, 60, was formerly head of Dulwich College Shanghai, an international off-shoot of a south London private school.
Charnock was initially charged with five offences, four of which carried maximum sentences of ten years imprisonment.
He pleaded guilty to three drug-related offences.
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