Cheung Ning-yan, 29, promised a friend she would help her sell an iPhone to her cousin, Kwun Tong Court heard. She sold it for HK$9,600 at a shop in Mong Kok and then told the friend she had been robbed.
Magistrate Leung Ka-kie said Cheung’s case was serious but accepted her prompt guilty plea. She sentenced the clubhouse worker to 12 months on probation. Prosecutors said Cheung had known her victim, a 27-year-old nurse, for years. Towards the end of 2018, the victim entrusted an iPhone XR, priced at HK$9,899, to Cheung after being told her cousin was interested in getting one.The two met again on March 2 with the victim demanding to have her phone back. Cheung told her she had been robbed by two South Asian men just an hour earlier.
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