A district court in Singapore heard that an Indonesian maid had told a police officer she fed "medicine" to her 79-year-old employer to make her less troublesome.
But at the start of her two-day trial on Thursday, Windri Hartatik, 26, denied she ever said this and claimed that she did not know of such drugs.
But Sergeant Norhafizah Kamaludin, 26, testified that on Dec 22, Madam Mah Ah Choo went to the Serangoon neighbourhood police centre to complain that her maid was poisoning her.
The policewoman then interviewed Windri, who alleged that a neighbour had given her a pack of white-coloured pills that would make Madam Mah "slow down" and not nag and complain so much.
The maid, who had worked for Madam Mah for two years also said she got rid of the remaining pills when police were informed.
But in her separate police statement to investigating officer Ong Xiqing, Windri changed her story and said that she had brought the pills from Indonesia and had taken them when she had difficulty sleeping.
She also admitted to lacing Madam Mah's food, but said this was because the
- Sitiemilia , Singapore.
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