DH slapped with $1,600 fine for shoplifting $644 worth of goods

 

First victim was PARK'nShop in Lok Fu (Photo from Wikipedia)

A Filipina who shoplifted HK$624 and HK$19.90 (for a total of $643.90) worth of products from two shops, was fined $800 for each of the two counts of thefts after she pleaded guilty today, April 1, at Kowloon City Court.

Emefreil B. Seguiza, a 37-year-old domestic helper, received the sentence from Magistrate Tsang Chung-yiu for two counts of violation of section 9 of the Theft Ordinance.

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Biendema initially stole one bottle of milk, one pack of egg, one bottle of peanut butter, two bottles of coffee power, one bottle of cocoa, nine packs of chocolate and one box of yoghurt, amounting to HK$624 from a PARK'n Shop on Lok Fu Place, 198 Junction Road, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon on Jan. 19, 2026.

She then went to a Kai Bo Food Supermarket at Fu Mou Street Market, Wang Tau Hom Estate, Wong Tai Sin, and stole a bottle of peanut butter priced at HK$19.90.

It was only after the second theft that she was caught and arrested.

Theft is punishable with a maximum sentence of 10 years' imprisonment. But minor of first-offence shop thefts often result in non-custodial sentences.