Canto-pop singer Jill Vidal should enter a drug rehabilitation centre if she wants to kick her heroin habit, experts said following her return yesterday to Hong Kong after a court appearance in Tokyo.
Vidal, 27, emerged in the arrivals hall at Hong Kong International Airport yesterday with swollen eyes, a red nose and chubby face following two months' incarceration in Japan. She managed a brief smile, then buried her face in her hands and appeared to be holding back tears. She was tight-lipped on her next move.
She went straight from the airport to her home in Butterfly Valley, Sham Shui Po, where officers from the police narcotics bureau searched her home for about an hour. Vidal's lawyer said the officers had found no drugs and that she would co-operate with police investigations.
Vidal later left her home for her father Joey's flat in Hung Hom.
The singer, who was supported yesterday by her father and record company staff, was released on Friday by the court in Tokyo after pleading guilty to possessing 1.84 grams of heroin. She was given a two-year jail term suspended for three years.
The star told the court she had been using heroin two to three times a week since last April. She admitted that drugs found in her luggage, including 11 packets of heroin, were brought from Hong Kong.
Popsy Sham, media supervisor for the singer's record label, AMusic, said Vidal would meet the media later.
