At former time (1), PW1 was shopping in location (1) with his girl friend. While they were shopping, deft.2-3 kept jostling vtm. on three occasions without any good reason. PW1 became suspicious and paid attention on deft.2-3. At latte time (1), PW1 found the zip of his shoulder bag was opened. Upon checking, PW1 found his wallet (exh.1) missing and suspected that it was stolen by deft.2-3. PW1 immediately informed the card centre to cancel the stolen credit cards and continued with his shopping. At time (2), PW1 came across deft.2-3 in location (2), who were together with deft.1. PW1 then kept surveillance on them and saw deft.2 took a leather jacket (exh.2) from a rack, put it on herself and left location (2) with deft.1 & 3 and without paying for exh.2. PW1 became confident that his wallet was stolen by deft.2-3 and made a report. PW1 then followed deft.2-3 and saw deft.2 passed exh.(2) to deft.1. Shortly afterwards, PW3-5 attended scene and arrested deft.1-3, who denied the offence under caution. Upon searching by PW3, exh.1 was found inside the rear left pocket of deft.1’s trousers. In addition, exh.2 was found inside deft.1’s carrier bag (exh.3). Enquiry was then conducted at location (2) and the staff PW2 confirmed that exh.(2) belonged to her shop and had not been sold. Deft.1-3 were then taken back to Tsimshatsui police station for further enquiry and were later charged with the offence accordingly.”