Titanic folly sinks graduate lift robber

A university student from a wealthy family robbed a woman at knife-point for money to take his girlfriend to see this season's favourite love story, Titanic.

Instead, Cameron Chik Ben-ley ended up starring in his own comedy of errors, the District Court heard yesterday.

Chik, 25, admitted using a 21-centimetre kitchen knife borrowed from his grandmother to rob Sum Hill-wah, 26, of $274 and C$20.

He robbed the woman in the lift of a Yau Ma Tei building on February 20.

He left the lift at the seventh floor and took the stairs down. However, the walk tired him and he stopped for a rest.

By the time he reached the foyer, Ms Sum and a caretaker were waiting for him. Police were called and he was arrested.

'This was a silly robbery, an act of robbery of such amateurish folly,' said barrister Newman Wong, for Chik.