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Filipina who breached social distancing rules jailed for stealing chocolates

29 June 2021

By Vir B. Lumicao 

The accused had been fined earlier for violating the gathering restrictions

A Filipina with a pending case for breaching social distancing rules was jailed for a month today when she returned to Eastern Court for stealing chocolates.

L.S. Figueroa, 45, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Peter Law to stealing the chocolates worth $85 in a Dai Sang Groceries outlet on the ground floor of Causeway Tower on Jun 27. Law sentenced her to three weeks in jail for the offense.

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The prosecutor then said Figueroa had a pending case for breaching Regulation 599G (Prevention and Control of Disease) for gathering with more than four friends on an unspecified date.

Law told Figueroa about her pending fine of $4,300 for the 599G offense. The woman replied she would like to be jailed instead as she was penniless.

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Law gave her an additional week in jail which she should serve after the three weeks  meted her for theft.

The Filipina had her friend's HKID in her wallet

Meanwhile, a Filipina domestic helper who was arrested for keeping her friend’s Hong Kong ID card was granted bail today, also at Eastern Court.

M.K. Maing’s bail application was allowed by Magistrate Law after her private lawyer said police were making further enquiry on how she came to possess another person’s HK ID card.

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The lawyer also said the defendant should not be a flight risk as she has a pending employment contract application at Immigration. Her would-be employer was said to be still in Australia and will return to Hong Kong only in August.

The lawyer said Maing will stay at Bethune House Migrant Women’s Refuge, whose executive director Edwina Antonio was at the hearing to support the bail application.


Maing had earlier applied for $1,200 bail. She has been in police custody since her arrest during a police spot check on May 12.

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