Housewife Gets Suspended Jail Over Faeces and CCTV Damage
SingTao · 2 SOURCESabout 1 hour ago2 MIN
Summary
A 59-year-old housewife was sentenced at Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on August 21 after being convicted following trial of criminal damage and throwing faeces or other foul matter onto private property. Acting Magistrate Ho Tsz-chun imposed one month’s imprisonment, suspended for 24 months, and ordered compensation of more than HK$2,900 after finding her conduct deliberate, persistent and serious.
Key Points
- Defendant Suen Siu-fong, 59, a housewife, was convicted of one count of criminal damage and one count of casting faeces or other offensive matter onto private property without consent.
- The criminal damage charge said she damaged a CCTV camera belonging to a woman surnamed Sin in the corridor on the 15th floor of Yin Ling Mansion, Shau Kei Wan, on May 31 last year
- The second charge said that between June 6 and July 13 last year, she threw faeces or other foul, malodorous or offensive matter onto the air-conditioner of a 15th-floor flat in the same building
- Ho said Suen had looked out into the corridor before the incident, showing clear criminal intent, and had deliberately pushed the camera from a windowsill while disregarding the risk of objects falling from height
- The magistrate said the repeated dumping of revolting material made neighbours fear day and night, affected more than one household when poured into the light well, and had reached the threshold for immediate imprisonment
Why It Matters
The ruling underlines that courts may treat sustained neighbour harassment and high-rise object throwing as custodial-level offences, even where the financial loss is limited. It also shows that personal grievances over privacy concerns will not justify damaging surveillance equipment or using foul matter to target neighbours in dense residential buildings.