By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-21 09:08:23 | Updated at 2024-10-21 11:31:05
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A senior Hospital Authority executive and her husband have lost an appeal against their convictions for shoplifting more than HK$1,600 (US$206) worth of food items from a Hong Kong supermarket over two years ago.
A deputy judge on Monday dismissed the couple’s contention that they were misled by a police investigator into admitting they had stolen the groceries.
The pair also failed to convince the High Court that they had forgotten to pay for some of the goods due to negligence.
“The evidence in the present case is indeed very sufficient, not to mention the two appellants’ respective confessions while they were cautioned and in subsequent video-recorded interviews,” Deputy Judge Frankie Yiu Fun-che said.
Hospital Authority chief manager Vivien Chuang Wai-man, 50, and orthopaedist Chiu Ming-yu, 49, were fined HK$5,000 each by Kowloon City Court last year on a joint count of theft.
They were found to have stolen a watermelon, a melon, two puddings, two packs of blueberries, two portions of sashimi, a box of sushi and a bag of pre-packed chicken worth HK$1,632 from an AEON store at Whampoa Garden in Hung Hom on April 23, 2022.
Surveillance footage showed the two doctors paying around HK$600 for 23 products without scanning the bar codes of 10 others, which were worth more than double those they bought.
