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| Eastern Court |
A 30-year-old Filipino resident of Hong
Kong was jailed for a total of three months on Apr 18, following his conviction on two counts
of “assault causing bodily harm” to his girlfriend.
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RJ Raqueño was sentenced by Eastern Court Magistrate Peter Yu to two months in jail for each of the two occasions he assaulted his girlfriend, a mother of a young child, in their rented room on Chun Yeung St in North Point in November last year.
But the magistrate ordered the sentences to overlap by a
month, resulting in a three-month jail term.
Raqueño was found guilty of the two assault charges at the
end of a trial on Apr 4.
In mitigation, the defense lawyer said Raqueño is very
remorseful and still loves his girlfriend, although his affection has been
unrequited since the assaults were committed.
The lawyer cited a medical report stating that the victim’s
injuries from the assaults were not serious. He also said there were no
aggravating circumstances such as the use of weapons.
The lawyer pleaded for a lenient sentence on Raqueño, who arrived
in Hong Kong in 2007 and is supporting his three children in the Philippines
But the magistrate said that although the injury the woman
suffered from being kicked in the leg by Raqueño did not require
hospitalization, she was also strangled, bitten on her left arm, and hit in the
eye by the defendant. – Vir B. Lumicao
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