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Prison officer sentenced for drug offence

A prison officer was convicted in Kowloon City Court yesterday for having prohibited articles. On May 13 last year, Kwong Kar-on, 37, was caught with some snacks and a tablet of esopiclone at the Lai Chi Kok Correctional Institution. Forty more tablets were found in her locker. Magistrate Timothy Casewell said that bringing the drug into the prison was a serious matter even though it was for her own use. He sentenced her to two months in jail, suspended for two years.

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