Read the full judgment text of DCCC 1311/2010 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 19 January 2011.
1. The Defendant pleads guilty to one count of theft. In 2005, the Defendant was employed as a gold refining technician in a gold refining Factory (“the Factory”) owned by Johnson Matthey Hong Kong Limited. The Factory was located at the ground floor of an industrial building in Kwai Chung. At all material times, the Defendant’s duty as a gold refining technician was to purify gold, and he had to handle gold grains in the course of his work. All the relevant staff members, including the Defe