3 Chinoys jailed 5 days, fined for shoplifting

 

North Point street where theft allegedly happened (Google Maps photo)

The three Filipino Chinese visitors whose bail offer of $30,000 each for two cases of shoplifting was rejected at Eastern Court last week, were sentenced to five days in prison and fined – after spending six days in detention.

G. Ong, 66 years old, P. Sy, 74, and P. L. Sy, 47, each pleaded guilty today to one count of theft for stealing 34 pens worth $2,012 from the Yu Shu Fong stationery store on Electric Road in North Point last Nov. 30.

Go pleaded guilty to a second theft case for stealing a toy train worth $68 from the same store on the same date.

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Principal Magistrate Don So punished Go with $2,000 fine and five days in prison for the two thefts.

The two Sys, on the other hand, were each fined $1,000 and five days in prison.

Since they had been detained for six days, Magistrate So told them to proceed to the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre, where they had been detained, so they could be released immediately.

So ordered them detained last Thursday (Dec. 5) until today’s hearing after their lawyer said they were allowed by the Immigration Department to stay in Hong Kong only until this week.

The lawyer was seeking their release on bail, saying they were established business people in the Philippines, with the elder Sy even owning a flat in Hong Kong, and were willing to each post a $30,000 bail.