An elderly Malaysian woman who is an adept thief and has been in and out of jail for the past 50 years has recently been arrested once again for pickpocketing
According to CNA, the 75-year-old Malaysian woman named Ng Kim Swee was sentenced to 4 years in jail on Wednesday after pleading guilty to 3 charges of theft.
The court heard that Ng was a serial thief whose modus operandi was to look for a target with an open handbag in crowded stores and that she would check for observers and closed-circuit television cameras before positioning herself out of the cameras’ line of sight.She would then pretend to browse items next to her target before using her other hand to retrieve the target’s wallet.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Jeremy Bin said Ng had been convicted of theft and house-breaking offenses in Malaysia in 1977, 1985, 1987, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019, as well as several convictions in Singapore for theft from as early as 1971.In the recent court hearing, her defence lawyer had argued that his client’s reason to do this was “for survival,” and what triggered the offenses was that she saw the misery that her son, who was in a wheelchair, was living in.
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