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| Store where Filipina was arrested |
An Eastern Court magistrate set aside a Filipina domestic helper’s guilty plea today and instead set a trial for her theft case that arose from her leaving a Wanchai store without paying for goods she had taken.
A. Delera, 40 years old, showed up in court without a lawyer
and pleaded guilty to the charge of theft for taking $433 worth of items – one pack
of prawn crackers, two packs of KitKat Chocolate, six cans of luncheon meat,
four packs of Snickers and one bottle of Nutella Chocolate -- last Sept. 28 at
the Best Mart on Johnston Road, Wanchai.
Principal Magistrate Don So asked her two questions: Did you
mean to steal? Did you want to steal?
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Delera answered no to both questions, explaining that when she
realized that she had lost her wallet inside the store, she panicked and forgot to pay when she left. “I panicked when I found out I lost my wallet,” she said.
“Then your plea should be not guilty,” he said, and scheduled her trial
for Dec. 6.
He set her free on bail of $500.
In another theft case today, Magistrate
So sentenced recognizance form holder V. Nasayao, 60 years old, to two months in prison after she pleaded guilty
to three cases of shoplifting in a Wellcome Supermarket on King’s Road, North
Point.
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In the first case, last Nov. 8, she and an unidentified female
stole three boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates.
Five days later, on Nov. 13, she returned and stole
two packs of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, four packs of Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate,
and six packs of Cadbury Milk Chocolate.
Later that day ,she again took two boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates.
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In mitigation, her lawyer said the items were for her own
consumption, and that she was willing to face punishment the court will impose.
She also promised to turn a new leaf, he added.
The actual sentence was two months in prison for each case
of theft, but So ordered that they be served at the same time.
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