By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

A WOMAN who mass-mailed evangelical tracts that the authorities have found objectionable claimed in her defence yesterday that she did not know what was in them.

Dorothy Chan Hien Leng said it was only after her arrest in January last year that she read the 11 publications 'because I wanted to know why I was arrested'.

The 45-year-old associate director of UBS and her husband allegedly had 439 copies of the seditious tracts at their Bukit Timah condominium in Maplewoods on Jan 30 last year. They were arrested that day.

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