Man shoplifts believing supermarket belongs to him

He was charged in a magistrate’s court with shoplifting two bottles of gin worth RM91.98 from a supermarket but the 53-year-old man was under the delusion that the supermarket belonged to him.

He claimed that “I didn’t steal. I heard voices telling me to go and take the bottles. The supermarket is mine, how can that be considered stealing?”

He said this when he was called up Tuesday at a magistrate’s court after a psychiatric report on him was tendered.

However, insisted that he wished to plead guilty to the charge of stealing two bottles of Rose Mary Churchill Dry Gin from the Giant supermarket in Penang Plaza, Burmah Road, at 12.35pm on July 2.

This prompted the court to explain to him that his psychiatric report had established he was of unsound mind and unaware of his offence and that he would be sent to stay at the psychiatric hospital.