Hong Kong court orders release of 14 in alleged triad murder case
L'essentiel
- A Hong Kong High Court has ordered the release of 14 defendants, including 12 men and one woman, charged with the alleged murder of former triad gangster Luk Wing-ho five years ago.
- The court ruled that prosecutors failed to prove Luk's fatal head injuries resulted from deliberate assaults rather than boxing bouts at his gym, directing the jury to acquit all defendants due to insufficient evidence regarding the 2021 incident.
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A Hong Kong court ordered the release of 14 defendants charged with murder after prosecutors failed to prove the deceased's fatal injuries were from assault rather than boxing. The alleged murder of former triad gangster Luk Wing-ho occurred in 2021.
A Hong Kong court has ordered the release of 14 defendants charged over the alleged murder of a former triad gangster five years ago, finding that prosecutors had failed to prove the deceased sustained fatal head injuries as a result of deliberate assaults rather than from boxing bouts at his gym.
The High Court on Monday directed a jury to acquit the defendants of all charges after ruling the evidence was too weak to draw any inference regarding the circumstances of the alleged offence between June 25 and 26, 2021.
Prosecutors had accused 12 men and a woman, now aged 26 to 34, of being part of a joint enterprise to kill Luk Wing-ho, 27, at his gym in the Rodeo Centre, an industrial building in Tai Kok Tsui.
Tse Ka-chai, Chow Man-hong, Tsui Chun-yin, Mabo Lee, Choi Hung, Kwok Yiu-ki, Lai Ka-po, Lam Chun-hong, Ng Ting-fu, Wong Shing-kwan, Shek King-sang, Anthony Ho Tsan-ue and Leung Cheuk-yung pleaded not guilty to a joint count of murder.
Tse, Shek, Ho and Leung were further charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by erasing evidence relating to Luk’s death.
Lee’s father, Lee Chi-ki, 57, also stood trial on a charge of assisting an offender for allegedly renting a flat in Fanling for his daughter to use as a hideout.
Questions ouvertes
- What were the specific details of the boxing bouts?
- What was the exact cause of Luk Wing-ho's death?
