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| Maritime Square (photo by Ck Yu on Google Maps) |
An unemployed Filipina with no fixed address is now back on the streets after a charge of criminal damage against her, for grabbing and throwing down a local woman’s mobile phone, was withdrawn by prosecutors today at West Kowloon Court.
Instead, M.C. Magno, 44 years old, agreed to be
bound over with the warning that she will be made to pay $1,000 to cleaning lady Tsoi Mei Chun, if she commits another offense within the
next 12 months.
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| TAWAG NA! |
Magistrrate Jason Wan also ordered her to pay $500 as court
costs -- exactly the amount she posted as police bail after she was arrested near
the Maritime Square mall in Tsing Yi, New Territories.
The case arose on Sep. 7 last year under a footbridge near
Maritime Square, when the cleaning lady accosted Magno and told her to turn
over a bag full of used aluminum cans she had collected from friends and the neighborhood
in Tsing Yi.
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The cans can be sold for cash in a nearby junk shop.
When Magno refused, the cleaning lady took out her mobile phone
and started taking a video of her.
Angered by the gesture, she grabbed the phone and threw it
down.
The cleaning lady called police and Magno was charged with
criminal damage, an offense under Section 60 (1) of the Crimes Ordinance.
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| PADALA NA! |
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