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A Filipina domestic helper who fought an Immigration Department charge that she breached her condition of stay by working in a flower shop, emerged victorious today after she was found not guilty at Shatin Court.
Susan
Francisco, 47 years old, heaved a sigh of relief after Magistrate Raymond Wong made
the ruling to conclude her two-day trial.
She
promptly retrieved her $20,000 bail from the court cashier.
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Francisco
was accused of violating section 41 of the Immigration Ordinance after she was arrested on Aug.
21 last year.
Immigration
accused her of performing odd jobs on the second floor of the Eastern Flower Center
on Cameron Road in Tsim Sha Tsui.
It
alleged that she contravened “a condition of stay in force in respect of you
imposed by an Immigration Assistant on 4 August 2025” which required her to “only
take such employment as approved by the Director of Immigration, namely, to
work as a domestic helper....”
However,
Magistrate Wong said the prosecution failed to prove Francisco’s guilt beyond
reasonable doubt.
