2 more held for journalist cleaver attack
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HONG Kong police yesterday arrested a man and a woman over a brutal cleaver attack on a veteran journalist, bringing the total number detained in the case to 11.
Kevin Lau, former editor-in-chief of the Ming Pao newspaper, was hacked with a cleaver in broad daylight last month by two men who fled the scene on a motorbike.
Police said they arrested a 55-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman early yesterday.
The force on Wednesday announced the arrests of nine men, including two suspects from the Chinese mainland with links to triad organized crime gangs.
Hong Kong police commissioner Andy Tsang told reporters the two triad-linked suspects had been arrested in Dongguan in the southern province of Guangdong.
Seven other “accomplices” were arrested across Hong Kong, he said.
Lau remains in hospital following the assault on February 26, in which he was struck six times on the back and legs with a cleaver, resulting in wounds that included a 16-centimeter gash.
Tsang said on Wednesday that police had yet to find a motive or establish a connection between the attack and Lau’s journalism.
Lau himself issued a statement on Wednesday saying he was certain he was targeted because of his journalism, and that it was “bewildering” that police said they had so far found no evidence of a direct link.
He added that his family are not engaged in any financial or personal disputes that could provide another motive, and that he has stated this to police.
South China Morning Post, citing a source inside Guangdong Province’s Public Security Bureau, reported the two triad-linked suspects were part of the Shui Fong criminal gang and were paid HK$1 million (US$129,000) each to carry out the attack.
“The money should have been enough for them to live on the mainland for a year,” the source told the Post, adding that the pair were told not to kill Lau.
Lau was moved out of intensive care and into a private ward earlier this month.
He remains in hospital and is currently unable to walk.
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