An aged Singapore has been imprisoned for 11 years for attempting to rob a retail chain with a bottle of water and snatching HK $ 14,000 (US $ 1,802) by a financial institution with a toy gun after passing Hong Kong for over a decade and exhausted his financial savings.
The Alta Court Tuesday (11 March) sentenced to Leong How-Seg for a theft rely and tried theft after the 75-year-old declared himself responsible yesterday.
The Court felt that Leong, who’s married, had remained with out work and misplaced contact along with his spouse since he arrived in Hong Kong in 2007. He instructed the courtroom he had overrated town since then and he exhausted his financial savings of a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars}.
He stated that he depended financially on his girlfriend he encountered within the metropolis, however the couple encountered monetary difficulties after anti -government protests in 2019 and the pandemic he adopted.
On 1 July 2020, the Septuagenarian approached a department of the prince Edoardo of the pharmacy chain with a bottle of water and a newspaper that stated: “If you wish to dwell, hurry up or you may be burned with petrol”.
He confirmed the written menace for a vendor, who was not shocked and expelled the accused from the store earlier than calling the police.
The investigators had closed the case as an unresolved crime and organized by the paper left by the wrongdoer after not elevating the fingerprints.
Leong had remained usually till a second theft noticed him run away with HK $ 14,000 from China Construction Bank (Asia) to Yau however Tei on April 14, 2022.
A dysfunctional aerial pistol wrapped in entrance of a cashier, which withdrawn 14 hk banknotes $ 1,000 from a particular gadget, triggering a silent alarm that warned the financial institution supervisor.
An worker of the financial institution who attended the theft on the aspect overpassed the Singapore after a chase, however the police had been nonetheless in a position to determine the creator and arrest him on the identical day in his residence within the village of Yuen Kong of Pat Heung.
The subsequent investigations revealed that Leong was the person who raided the Mannings store in Prince Edoardo.
Leong instructed the police that he spent a few of the Mal Benia earnings to purchase a bag, recharge his card in money of Octopus and set up a HK $ 7,500 debt as a result of his landlord.
He added that he solely discovered that the stolen cash was HK $ 14,000 in complete from the information.
When requested concerning the theft failed in 2020, Leong stated he had dedicated the crime since he had failed his month-to-month rental.
In the condemnation, choose Douglas Yau Tak-Hong stated that the usage of Leong’s use of imitation weapons and the specter of utilizing power within the two robberies have requested a cleaning penalty regardless of his superior age and unhealthy well being.
Yau set a place to begin of the 5.5 -year sentence of imprisonment for the theft failed in 2020 and 12 years for the theft two years later.
The choose lowered Leong’s sentence to the sunshine of his request for guilt and cooperation with the police through the investigation, earlier than ordering {a partially} competing sentence of 11 years.
The theft is punishable by Hong Kong’s life imprisonment.
