{"id":59399,"date":"2026-08-25T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/british-man-charged-in-singapore-two-years-after-alleged-theft-at-changi-airport\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:39:09","slug":"british-man-charged-in-singapore-two-years-after-alleged-theft-at-changi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/british-man-charged-in-singapore-two-years-after-alleged-theft-at-changi-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"British man charged in Singapore two years after alleged theft at Changi airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Singapore has charged a British man for theft more than two years after he allegedly stole a denim jacket from a store at the airport shopping mall.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The police were alerted to the theft in the evening of 14 August 2024 when a retail assistant at Singapore&#8217;s Changi Airport realised a blue denim jacket was missing from a display mannequin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surveillance footage showed a man removing the jacket, worth about S$350 ($275; \u00a3202), from the mannequin and leaving the store without making payment. By the time the authorities established his identity, the man had departed Singapore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old was arrested on 15 August this year while in transit at the airport and was charged on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg024vrzxjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore has charged a British man for theft more than two years after he allegedly stole a denim jacket from a store at the airport shopping mall. The police were alerted to the theft in the evening of 14 August 2024 when a retail assistant at Singapore&#8217;s Changi Airport realised a blue denim jacket was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59401,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59399\/revisions\/59401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}