Anton Casey, the British fund manager who mocked the ‘poor people’ of Singapore on
Facebook, has been sacked and forced to flee the country for Australia.
Casey,
39, took a Singapore Airlines flight to Perth on Friday but not before
first apologising for the biggest mistake in his life and offering to do ”community service”.
The angry reaction to his Facebook insults had left his situation
and that of his former Miss Singapore wife, Bernice Wong, and son in
the island state untenable.
In his Facebook posts he showed a picture of his son holding up
his ticket on a Singapore MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) train with the
caption: “Daddy where is your car and who are all these poor people?”
Another image showed his son in a silver Porsche with the line, “Normal
service can resume, once I have washed the stench of public transport
off me, FFS!”
He then described a Singapore taxi driver as a
“retard” for wearing gloves and covering himself with towels in 37C
degrees weather.
Casey who worked for a
small financial company called CrossInvest, and who occasionally
appeared on local television as a financial pundit, had displayed,
claimed angry Singaporeans, ‘intolerable arrogance’.
Singapore’s law and foreign affairs minister K Shanmugam described Casey’s comments as “deeply offensive, wrong, and unacceptable”.
CrossInvest said in a statement:
“[Casey"s] comments go against our core corporate and family values that are
based on trust, mutual understanding and are respectful of diversity.
“Accordingly, CrossInvest Asia and Mr Casey
have parted ways with immediate effect.”
Casey’s parting message to the Straits Times newspaper was: “I hope the
people of Singapore will allow me to volunteer my time and resources to
community projects in order to make amends for my mistakes.
“I also hope the people of Singapore, my adopted home, will
forgive me over time… Singapore is our home, and we hope to return
when we feel safe.”
Briton flees to Australia after being sacked for mocking Singapore "poor"
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