(Update) A Filipina domestic helper who was jailed for two months after she pleaded guilty at Eastern Court to stealing a diamond ring and two platinum rings from her employer, had her sentence raised to six months.
In a review hearing requested by the prosecutors, Principal
Magistrate Don So increased on Thursday (Jan. 23) three-fold the penalty for Sheila Mae Bajar, 42
years old, who confessed to theft in violation of section 9 of the Theft
Ordinance.
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Magistrate So agreed with the prosecution’s argument that the
two-month imprisonment handed to her earlier was not an appropriate penalty for the crime Bajar
committed.
Last Wednesday (Jan. 22), she pleaded guilty to the charge of
stealing a diamond ring and two platinum rings with a total value of $192,800,
between March 1 and July 15 last year at her employer’s home in Residence
Bel-Ai in Pokfulam.
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Meanwhile, unemployed Chanda B., 44 years old, was
fined $50 after she pleaded guilty to shoplifting chocolates from a BestMart 360
shop on King’s Road in North Point.
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The defendant admitted taking three packs of Mars chocolate,
three packs of Toblerone, and three packs of Snickers on Dec. 21 last year.
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She was arrested by North Point policemen who were called to the scene by store employees after she left the store with the goods without paying.
