Women robbed by drug addicts

TWO drug addicts who robbed women at knifepoint were yesterday jailed for seven years by the High Court.

Printing worker Cheng Ping-lam, 28, pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery and one of theft. The Crown offered no evidence against him on one count of robbery and two of theft.

Unemployed Cheng Chi-ping, 29, admitted four robbery charges, but the Crown dropped one charge of robbery and one of theft.

Passing sentence, Mr Justice Sears said the pair had staged a campaign of armed robbery against women.

They had waited in the early hours for unescorted women, threatened them with a knife and then robbed them.

The judge said women were entitled to go about their business without being terrified by people like the Chengs.