Fake gun, real threat; Filipino gets five years for exchange shop robbery
The Criminal Court has sentenced a Filipino man to five years in prison with hard labour for robbing a money exchange shop in the Al-Shaab using a fake pistol to threaten the employees. The court also ordered his deportation from Kuwait after serving the sentence.
According to court papers the accused forced his way into the exchange shop, the door to the employees’ area and threatened to shoot the staff if they resisted or attempted to escape. He also poured some substance at the scene to intimidate those present and hit one employee in the face with the handle of the weapon. He then took money from the safe and escaped.
The Criminal Court found him guilty and put him behind bars for five years with hard labor and deportation after serving the sentence.
