Two ladies are going through two years in jail for allegedly attacking nail salon employees in Bali.
The ladies, recognized by native media as Andrea CW, 37, from London, and Chansler A, 37, from New York, had been just lately arrested when making an attempt to board a flight to Thailand.
It’s been alleged the pair, who had been on vacation on the favored island, assaulted employees of the Ombre Nail Salon in Kerobokan over a misunderstanding about cost.
In keeping with native publication, Coconuts, police stated the ladies had gone to the salon for a physique remedy however didn’t manage to pay for to pay for it. They then allegedly turned indignant when the employees tried to cost them for the service.
The ladies had been taken to the Badung Police Station for questioning.
“We’re nonetheless investigating the case,” Badung Police spokesman Jansen Aviatus Panjaitan stated in a press release issued this week.
CCTV footage reveals US girl Chansler, who’s carrying a bucket hat, speaking to a staffer earlier than the pair seem in a tug-a-war battle over money.
The staffer behind the counter may be heard yelling, “you need to pay”.
Chansler is then seen falling backwards and crashing right into a desk after forceful pulling what seems to be cash.
Andrea, from the UK, then seems and steps in, screaming on the member of employees as she holds her arms: “Calm down, I’m making an attempt to provide the cash! Calm down your self, perceive?!”
“Let me let you know one thing. I’m making an attempt to be affordable. I requested you many instances to let me exterior. I ran exterior to get cash. You don’t know what I’m going exterior for. Why had been you making an attempt to carry me hostage?”
The supervisor of Ombre Nails Studio stated: “These prospects got here and requested for remedy in our studio and so they had been knowledgeable in regards to the costs and every little thing, however on the finish they refused to pay the quantities.”
“They blackmailed us that if we stored asking them to pay, they are going to go away a foul overview, and so they began to verbally abuse our employees,” the supervisor alleged.
“All proof was recorded and is being dealt with by our lawyer, and we submitted a report back to police final evening.”
The supervisor additional alleged the 2 ladies tried to take cash from within the cashier and “prompted some bodily damage and psychological shock to our employees”.
“We would have liked to catch them to allow them to not less than apologise to our employees. A few of them are nonetheless trembling and crying till in the present day.”
The vacationers had been arrested by police whereas they had been making an attempt to board a aircraft to Thailand on the Ngurah Rai Worldwide Airport on December 16.
“The 2 perpetrators entered the immigration space and queued on the counter at round 5.30pm,” Ngurah Rai Immigration officer Gilang Danurdara stated.
“They regarded suspicious as a result of they had been carrying hats and masks. There was an try to deceive.”
In keeping with The Every day Mail, immigration officers stated they matched the ladies’s faces to the CCTV video circulating on-line earlier than handing them to the police.
“The pair had been really planning to remain in Indonesia till December 22. They had been scheduled to go to Pulau Dewata, however they determined to depart on December 16 following the incident on the salon,” Badung Police Chief Kompol I Made Pramasetia stated.
Andrea and Chansler had been going through prices for violating Part 1, Article 351 of the Indonesian Penal Code, which states that “maltreatment shall be punished with a most imprisonment of two years and eight months”.
The publication reported they may even be charged below Article 335 or “forcing others to do one thing”, which carries a most jail sentence of 1 yr.
