HER HARD-EARNED SAVINGS OF ABOUT £10,000 (RM56,000), ALONG WITH HER PERSONAL BELONGINGS, WERE ALSO CONFISCATED BEFORE SHE WAS DEPORTED BACK TO MALAYSIA TWO WEEKS AGO.

Malaysian who worked as a cook overseas gets ‘burnt’

LONDON: Being “in the wrong place, at the wrong time” proved disastrous for a Malaysian woman who thought she had landed herself a well-paying job as a cook in a brothel.

With free accommodation and food as well as generous tips from the girls, she had expected to return to Kuala Lumpur a fairly rich woman.

But what followed was a living nightmare; she paid a heavy price for working in the sleazy joint and ended up being accused of running the brothel.

The woman was detained for six months and later released on bail for eight months in a foreign land “with no money, friends or relatives.”

Her hard-earned savings of about £10,000 (RM56,000), along with her personal belongings, were also confiscated before she was deported back to Malaysia two weeks ago.

It is learnt the woman, known as Chin, arrived in London in September 2007 to help take care of her cousin’s invalid mother-in-law.

She returned to Malaysia in February 2008, before her visa expired, promising to return to Britain in September, which she did.

When the elderly woman died a month later, she took up the job as a cook in the brothel in Belfast, Northern Ireland, through a friend.

Chin reckoned that she could earn a fast buck in just four months before returning to Malaysia.

Just when everything seemed to be going her way, disaster struck.

In December, police raided the brothel and detained her on suspicion of running the place as the female boss was never there.

On Jan 4, she was convicted of running the brothel and was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, which was deemed to have been served during her detention.