A woman was kissed and hugged by a group of youths

A group of youths robbed while also kissed and hugged a woman outside a lift at an apartment block in Bukit Jambul, George Town. At about 10.35pm, the victim walked out of the lift on Thursday on the 28^th floor when the three youths accosted her.

One of the youths took her handbag containing RM40, a handphone and some shopping vouchers, while another kissed and hugged her.

The youths were arrested the next day and a fourth suspect was picked up by the police for having bought the woman’s handphone from them.They returned the handbag to the woman after she begged them.

The youths were arrested at about 6.30pm in Sungai Nibong and Gelugor, who aged between 16 and 20, said George Town OCPD Asst. Comm. Mior Faridalathrash Wahid.

“All the youths are no longer schooling” he said, adding that the three youths had admitted to robbing and molesting the woman.

The suspects have been remanded for investigrations into gang robbery and the use of criminal force on a person with the intent to outrage modesty.

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