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Joyce Man

How does a male burglar make a quick getaway without being identified? By slipping into something a little more comfortable, in the case of Yu Wai-hung.  But Yu, 46, despite coming prepared with  a shiny black and beige women's slip, with straps, did not get away in the last of a string of burglaries.
He pleaded guilty in the District Court  yesterday to three counts of burglary, having taken items from three flats on a Siu Sai Wan Estate  where he lives in September.
A police officer who investigated the case said outside court that Yu might have been attempting to enter the flat dressed as a man, hoping to get away unidentified by leaving in women's clothes. 
He was found with the slip under a blue men's T-shirt. 
Yu entered flats in Sui Keung House  on September 5, 9 and 25. Each time he chose unlocked ones, entering in the early hours as inhabitants were sleeping. Some of the inhabitants saw Yu before he fled.
He took a camera from one flat, and HK$6,000 cash, a mobile phone, a bag, an identity card and a mainland travel permit from another. 
Police officers saw Yu as he was leaving the third flat, on the 14th floor. When they tried to stop him, he ran. 
They later found him wearing a pair of gloves and holding a torch outside another flat, on the seventh floor, and arrested him.
They recovered some of the burgled items at Yu's flat. He admitted stealing the bag, and said he had thrown away the identity card and permit, and sold the mobile phone. 
Judge Kevin Browne  jailed Yu for two years.  Considering the time of day he entered the flats, he said Yu was bound to have a confrontation. 'This is a frightening situation for the occupants,' he said.
Yu, who is divorced, has an 11-month-old son and is unemployed. He is receiving psychiatric treatment for depression because he has contemplated suicide. Before March, he was working as a clerk. Yu's wife divorced him because of his spending habits. He is currently living at a Jockey Club residence for single people. 
Yu said he felt pressure while volunteering at Tung Wah Hospital,  Sheung Wan,  because a supervisor there said he was performing well and he feared that he would not live up to his expectations.
Yu's ex-wife wrote that he had been a good father and good to her despite their divorce.



Man who robbed flats in women's dress jailed for 2 years