A MASSEUSE has lost her fight to overturn her conviction for harassing a regular customer.

The High Court on Tuesday dismissed the appeal filed by Madam Song Jing, 41, who was fined $1,000 in a district court in September, as a result of her client Howe Jee Tian, 55, taking out police summonses against her for showing up uninvited at his Tuas office in August last year.

The married mother of one, a Singapore permanent resident from China, was found guilty of trespass. She was also convicted of a charge of mischief - for having pasted notices on his car windows in October last year.

When Mr Howe, a managing director of a contracting company, confronted her, she turned aggressive and grabbed his collar.

The court heard on Tuesday that she first came to know him in 2003, two years after her arrival here, when he went to the Holland Road massage parlour where she worked.

She became his personal masseuse, and he, a regular.

When she moved to another parlour in Tanjong Pagar, he continued going to her and even gave her his cellphone number.

Things soured in 2004 when he stopped the visits, and she began to pester him. She also stalked the married father of one at his office and his home.

But if she set out to show Justice V.K. Rajah why her conviction was unwarranted, what she said did little to convince him of her case:

She admitted pasting the notices on Mr Howe's car windows, and even showed the court the glue she used - but insisted that the notices were easily removable.

She also admitted going to his office, but claimed he did not stop her. As for grabbing his collar, she claimed he told his employees to grab her.

'I'm only a woman...Do they need three people to remove me?' she pleaded.

She also accused Mr Howe of trying to rape her on previous occasions.

Mr Howe's lawyer Christine Sekhon noted that Madam Song did not mention the alleged rapes to the police when she had the chance to.

In dismissing her appeal, Justice Rajah told Madam Song he was satisfied that the judge had ruled correctly, and that the fact that she was a masseuse and from China did not put her at any disadvantage in the legal system.