He will have to show up at ICA for a review in 2 weeks time.

Jun 26, 2007
AsiaOne

MediaCorp actor Christopher Lee, who was released from jail yesterday after serving four weeks of his six-week sentence, will have to appear before the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) for a review of his permanent residence status.

The ICA conducts such a review of PRs who have been convicted of an offence and jailed as a standard practice.

Media reports say the actor will be called up by the ICA within two weeks.

The 35-year-old actor walked out of the Queenstown Remand Prison at about 11.25 am yesterday, two weeks earlier because of good behaviour.

He was jailed six weeks for a drink-driving incident last year.

He made a quiet exit and there were no friends or relatives to greet him.

"Thank you all for your concern" was all he had to say to a waiting group of reporters before getting into a taxi, which dropped him off at a nearby petrol station where his friend was waiting in a car.

Lee had pleaded guilty on 10 May to four charges of drink driving, failing to render help, inconsiderate driving and removing his car without permission after the accident.

He was jailed four weeks, fined $4,500 and banned from driving for three years.

On June 21, Lee’s $3,000 fine for drink driving was replaced with a two-week jail term after the prosecution appealed.

His girlfriend, MediaCorp star Fann Wong has not seen him since his drink-driving trial, and subsequent jail sentence, began last month.

She was in Malaysia filming a Jack Neo movie and had no time to come back. That was what she revealed at a recent press conference to promote a new MediaCorp drama serial, Switched!, in which she stars.

Fann, 36, said told reporters then: “He told me not to see him, and as his girlfriend, I have got to respect him.”

Even his own parents and grandmother in Malacca did not know he was released yesterday, according to Lian Zaobao.

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