Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000026/2006 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 3 February 2006.
1. The Appellant appeals his conviction for theft. It was a pickpocketing case. Someone bumped into a lady, who was PW1 in the proceedings below, at a busy junction in Sham Shui Po. As she was bumped into by this man, she felt that her mobile phone, which was in her right trouser pocket, was being taken away. She grabbed the man and held on to him. That man was this Appellant. She saw her phone in his hand. It was a distinctive one, being a white phone with a pink string hanging from it.