He left a note saying “I am sorry” and fled to Johore, then Brunei where he and his wife, Lisa, took a flight back to the United Kingdom. However, by then the authorities were already on his trail and arrested him when the plane landed at Frankfurt for refueling. He was extradited back to Singapore. He had been trying to flee back to the United Kingdom because he thought he would rather face a trial there than in strait-laced Singapore. But Britain declined to extradite him. He pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud and the Singapore court sentenced him in December 1995 to six and a half years jail, back dated from the date of his arrest in March 1995.