A woman who attacked two police officers on separate occasions, both while drunk, has been jailed 36 weeks.

Japanese national Eri Tanaka, 33, was sentenced at the State Courts after pleading guilty to two counts of causing hurt to two police officers and one count of using criminal force on a policeman.

The court heard that Tanaka had consumed two glasses of beer along with two to three glasses of gin and tonic on 16 February after work. She was employed as a performing artiste at Club Babylon at the time. At about 4.30am, she took a taxi to Lucida condominium in Novena with the intention of visiting her boyfriend who lived there.

She arrived at the condominium at 5.15am, but could not gain access to its lift as she did not have the access card. A security officer then asked her to leave but she refused and sat on the ground before repeatedly pressing paging her boyfriend’s unit through the lift’s intercom system.

The security officer then called for the police. Tanaka still refused to leave even after police officers arrived. When one of the officers, a policewoman, tried to persuade Tanaka to leave, she started to cry and shouted at the officers.

Police officers then decided to arrest her at about 7.20am. When the policewoman tried to handcuff Tanaka, she bit the officer on her left hand for about two to three seconds. Tanaka continued to struggle with the officers even after being handcuffed.

As the officers tried to place her in the police car, Tanaka also pushed her legs against the car doors to stop them. The officers eventually had to use flex-cuffs to restrain both her legs and carry her into the police car.

While she was out on police bail, Tanaka got drunk again on 7 April 2017 and went to the hotel lobby of St Regis Singapore, where she created a scene by throwing her personal belongings around.

Tanaka also pushed a police officer who responded to the commotion at the hotel three times, before starting to cry. She also kicked the officer’s left knee.

Tanaka, who was unrepresented, said in her mitigation that she regretted her actions and was sorry for them. For causing hurt to a police officer, she could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined on each charge.

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