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Dec 19, 2009
Transvestite robbers jailed
BEIJING - FIVE Filipino transvestites who lured foreign men from bars in the Chinese city of Shanghai before drugging and then robbing them have been jailed for up to 13 years, state media said on Friday. The men, aged between 26 and 30, dressed in women's clothes when they carried out the robberies between December 2008 and February 2009, a Shanghai court found, according to the Xinhua news agency. They would go with the men to hotels or the victims' homes with promises of sex, but once there would drug them with chocolate or beer laced with sleeping pills. The five would then rob the victims of cash, mobile phones, watches and credit cards, the report said, quoting the court. The stolen goods totalled 340,000 yuan (S$70,000), Xinhua said. All five men, who were jailed on Friday for between nine and 13 years, will be deported after serving their sentences, the report said. -- AFP
Home > Breaking News > Asia > Story
Dec 19, 2009
Transvestite robbers jailed
BEIJING - FIVE Filipino transvestites who lured foreign men from bars in the Chinese city of Shanghai before drugging and then robbing them have been jailed for up to 13 years, state media said on Friday. The men, aged between 26 and 30, dressed in women's clothes when they carried out the robberies between December 2008 and February 2009, a Shanghai court found, according to the Xinhua news agency. They would go with the men to hotels or the victims' homes with promises of sex, but once there would drug them with chocolate or beer laced with sleeping pills. The five would then rob the victims of cash, mobile phones, watches and credit cards, the report said, quoting the court. The stolen goods totalled 340,000 yuan (S$70,000), Xinhua said. All five men, who were jailed on Friday for between nine and 13 years, will be deported after serving their sentences, the report said. -- AFP
