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Hong Kong woman gets 10 years in jail for luring victims into gang’s extortion plot

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A Hong Kong woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for assisting in robbing three people as a teenager by luring them to a deserted location before her fellow gang members attacked them and took nude photos for extortion. The High Court sentenced 23-year-old Hau Yan-ki on Tuesday after a jury rejected her assertion that she had mistakenly believed she was just helping her friends to collect debts from the victims. She was among six people – two women and four men – arrested in connection...

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Read the full story at the source South China Morning Post · HK