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| The alleged peeping incident happened inside this Kwai Chung mall |
A Filipino asylum seeker originally hailed to court on a voyeurism charge at West Kowloon Court, was sentenced yesterday, Thursday, to two months and one week’s imprisonment on three charges -- after spending almost six months in jail.
F. Magallanes, 34 years old and holder of a recognizance
form as identity document, had earlier pleaded guilty to voyeurism, possession
of a dangerous drug and possession of an apparatus fit and intended for the
ingestion of dangerous drug.
Magallanes was remanded in jail custody when his case was
adjourned last June 25 after being charged with “surreptitiously“ observing a
woman identified as X while she was relieving herself last June 25 at a women’s
toilet on the third floor of Kwai Chung Plaza, a mall in Kwai Chung, New
Territories, in violation of Section 159AAB or Section 159AAC of the Crimes
Ordinance.
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When he appeared at West Kowloon
court again on Aug. 28, he faced two additional charges of violating the
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, resulting in his being returned to jail until his
case is finished.
He was accused of possessing 0.13 gram of methamphetamine hydrochloride in a plastic bag found in his pocket
while he was being investigated for the “Peeping Tom” charge at the Police Room
of the Kwai Chung MTR station last June 25.
Also found on him was a straw and an
ice bottle, used for inhaling meth.
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“Considering the seriousness of charges you are facing, the
only sentence I think appropriate is a prison term,” Magistrate Li told him.
After deducting one third of the penalty for Magallanes’
guilty pleas, Li jailed him for two weeks for the “Peeping Tom” charge, and two
months for each of the drug charges.
Li also ordered that the sentences for the drug cases run at
the same time, along with half of the voyeurism penalty, leaving a final
sentence of two months and one week.
