A jobless single mother has been jailed for two months for taking her two children on a shoplifting trip to a supermarket.
Eastern Court heard that Hung Yuk-wah, 35, asked her 11-year-old daughter to carry some of the stolen goods, which included toys and snacks, in her bag.
At 9.30pm on February 16, plain-clothes security guard Hui Ngan-fu noticed Hung hanging around the Aeon store at Kornhill Plaza South in Quarry Bay with her daughter and son, aged eight.
He saw Hung take a bottle of orange juice, priced at HK$28, from a shelf and put it into her plastic shoulder bag. She then left the shop without paying.
Hui then intercepted Hung and recovered 30 stolen items valued at HK$3,258 - including chocolate, confectionery, toys and recycle bags - from her. Police were called in.
Under caution, Hung admitted the offence but told police that her children knew nothing about the thefts, and she had just asked her daughter to carry some items for her.