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| Estate where the stealing spree began (Google Maps photo) |
A Filipina was jailed for four months today after she pleaded guilty at Fan Ling Court to eight theft charges involving more than $6,000 in total.
Beverly Fernandez, 29, was actually meted a four-month jail
sentence for each theft, but the sentences were made to run concurrently by Magistrate
Kelly Shui, who noted the “serious breach of trust done towards an old lady.”
Magistrate Shui did not issue a compensation order despite the prosecution demanding that Fernandez return the stolen total of $6,071.9 to her employer and her mother in law.
Her lawyer said she was unable to produce
the money. In fact. he said in mitigation, she was driven to steal because she
was deep in debt.
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The stealing spree
began when Fernandez stole a wallet belonging to her employer’s mother-in-law, when she visited their flat in Yuk Po Court, Sheung Shui last Aug. 8. The
wallet contained the owner’s JoyYou card issued by Octopus Card to the elderly,
her Hong Kong ID card and $1,980 in cash.
On the same day, Fernandez also stole $3,500 in cash from
her employer’s bedroom drawer.
She left the house that day and used the stolen JoyYou card to
take an MTR ride at the Shatin station, paying the dicounted $1.40 fare, which the charge said, represented a debt owed by Octopus Cards Ltd. to its owner.
Her fourth theft case arose after she used the JoyYou card
to make a $22.5 purchase at the Circle K store at Wai Wah Center in Shatin.
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She then took another MTR ride in Kowloon Tong, charging a
$2 fare.
At the Festival Walk Mall in Kowloon Tong, she used the
JoyYou card again to buy shoes from a Dr. Kong shop on the second floor,
incurring a $508 expense.
Before she left the mall, she ate at Pepper Lunch also on the
second floor, and paid for the $56 meal with the JoyYou card.
Finally, on the next day (Aug. 9), she took the MTR at the
Lam Tin station and charged the $2 fare to the stolen JoyYou card.
