AN Air New Guinea flight attendant was awoken in his Tsim Sha Tsui hotel room by two members of the US Navy who robbed him of inflight duty free takings, a court heard yesterday.
Rickie Ashcraft, 21, and Travis Garber, 22, have denied robbing Josephenk Awuki of US$181 (about HK$1,400) as well as 135 Papua New Guinea kina (about HK$1,000), inside a room at the Holiday Inn Golden Mile, Nathan Road, on Tuesday.
It is the defence case that Ashcraft and Garber were not involved in any incident inside Mr Awuki's room and the only reason Mr Awuki saw them in the lift lobby when he went to make a report to hotel security was that they were staying in the hotel.
Examined by Susanna Ku, prosecuting on a fiat, Mr Awuki said he was woken up at 2.45 am by a knock on the door.
Assuming it to be hotel security, he told South Kowloon Court, he answered it and saw the two defendants.
He said they entered his room and he saw one take something from his suitcase.
After the pair had left his room, he said, he found that US$181 and all but eight kina of the 135 kina inflight duty free takings with which he had been entrusted were missing.