Singapore  - A Singapore court fined a restaurant manager 500 Singapore dollars (326 US dollars) Thursday for tying up a sex worker who subsequently fell to her death from a window of the man's ninth-floor flat, a news report said.

Edmund Peter Anthony had taken the 27-year-old Thai woman home and had sex with her on October 15, 2007, the online edition of the Straits Times newspaper reported. Before he went to the bathroom, he tied her hands and ankles with neckties.

When the man returned to his bedroom, the woman was crouching outside the window. He asked her to climb back in but she lost her balance and fell to her death, the court was told.

The man's lawyer said his client paid 5,000 Singapore dollars to the woman's husband as a sign of his deep regret and remorse over the incident. (dpa)