Herminia Garcia now back in PH

Garcia (second from the right) with her husband. (File photo)

HERMINIA Garcia, the former domestic helper and the mother of a teenager who jumped to her death from a luxury apartment in Repulse Bay in April 2015, is now back in the Philippines.

Vice Consul Fatima Guzman-Quintin, head of the Assistance to Nationals section of the Philippine Consulate General, said Garcia was released from jail in the first week of June.

After being released, Garcia was taken to the airport for her flight back to the Philippines.

Garcia co-habited with British insurance executive Nick Cousins and they had two daughters.

The eldest, then 15, apparently committed suicide in April last year, leading the police to discover that Garcia was overstaying in Hong Kong and that the couple failed to register the births of their children, who did not have Hong Kong identity cards.

In October 2015, a judge in the Eastern Magistrates Courts sentenced Garcia to one year imprisonment.

Garcia came here to work as a domestic helper but she decided to stay on after her visa reportedly expired in 1994. She met Cousins a year later. Their first daughter was born in 1999, and the younger one, a year after.

Garcia had a husband in the Philippines but they became estranged. He died in 2014.