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A Filipino who was charged with tearing down a steel roller shutter of a doctor’s clinic in Sai Ying Pun, was sentenced today at Eastern Court to 120 hours of community service and ordered to pay $31,000 for the damage.
L. Ombao, 42 years old, who was earning $16,000 monthly
as assistant chef, was told to pay the victim, Dr Lau Chin Yeung, in installments of $1,100 a
month until fully paid.
Magistrate Kestrel Lam handed down the sentence after the prosecution
proposed community service be adopted as punishment since this was the
recommendation of a report he ordered earlier, and government laboratory
analysis showed Ombao was negative for drugs.
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Ombao was charged with criminal damage, contrary to sections
60(1) of the Crimes Ordinance, after he damaged the steel shutter at "Dr Lau
Chin Yeung Hokgins Medical Practice", Shop G, G/F, Wealth Building, 53-65 High
Street, Sai Ying Pun.
A police complaint said he did this on Nov. 23, 2025 “without lawful excuse, …
intending to damage such property or being reckless as to whether such property
would be damaged.”
He pleaded guilty and Magistrate Lam put off sentencing
until a community service report is made on him.
Lam said he considered that Ombao pleaded guilty , that he was willing to compensate for the damage he caused, and that he had a criminal conviction in 1999.
He deducted the first installment from Ombao’s $3,000 bail money.
