Coconuts biggest crime busts of 2015

With the New Year comes listicles, so here’s your first. We’re all beginning the painful process of recapping the year’s mistakes and reliving our regrets, ahead of making those god awful resolutions…
To make all you wonderful Coconauts feel a bit better about your lives, we’ve listed the most shocking and strange crime stories from 2015 that had you going nuts – just to prove that we weren’t the worst humans to walk the globe last year.
 

The Countdown

#10 – Man who posed as a fortune teller to have sex with ‘client’ arrested

#9 – Naughty nun arrested amid claims of embezzlement and sham marriages with 2 mainland monks

#8 – Gang robs Sai Kung luxury house, one tempted down from tree with can of coke

#7 – Old Hong Kong man pretends to get hit by car in apparent scam, driver catches it all on video

#6 – Hong Kong manhunt for mainland kidnapping gang that fled with HKD28 million ransom

#5 – Armed brawl at Jordan MTR amid peak hours: 2 men severely injured

#4 – Erwiana’s employer found guilty

#3 – Police searching for 12-year-old girl after she pulls HKD36 million diamond heist

#2 – 109 people arrested in LKF after Southeast Asian men allegedly piss on triad leader

#1 – Wife arrested on suspicion of bludgeoning her husband to death
 


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