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| The Filipina faces the new charge at West Kowloon Courts |
A Filipina who was originally accused in West Kowloon Court of criminal intimidation for allegedly threatening a man in Discovery Bay, had the charge against her changed to one of dropping an object from a building.
Annabelle Galang Chavanne, 39, was accused of dropping a safe from a window of a Discovery Bay flat when she appeared at West Kowloon
Court yesterday (May 12), an act prohibited under Section 4B (1) the Summary Offences Ordinance.
The law provides that if “anything is dropped or allowed to
fall from any building to the danger or injury of any person in or near a
public place, the person who drops that thing or allows it to fall commits an
offence and is liable to a fine at level 3 ($10,000) and imprisonment for 6
months.”
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| PINDUTIN DITO |
A Lantau Police report stated that last Jan. 25, Chavanne dropped
a safe from a 16th floor flat in Cherish Court in Discovery Bay “to
the danger or injury of any person outside the building”, which is a public
place.
There was, however, no mention of anyone being hit by the safe.
The new charge takes the place of the withdrawn criminal
intimidation case in which the defendant is accused of threatening to harm Cassius Crowther in
the same Discovery Bay flat 19 days earlier, on Jan. 6.
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| TAWAG NA |
It was alleged that Chavanne threatened Crowther “with
injury to his person, with intent to alarm him,” which violates Section 24 (a)
(i) of the Crimes Ordinance.
Magistrate Pang Leung-ting adjourned the case to May 31 and ordered Chavanne released on $1,000 bail.
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