Jury finds pair guilty of brutal attack
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Two men charged with a savage knife attack on a journalist in Hong Kong were found guilty yesterday.
Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah were convicted of causing grievous bodily harm in a brutal attack on Kevin Lau, former editor of the Ming Pao newspaper.
Lau was stabbed in broad daylight in February last year before his assailants escaped on a motorcycle.
The jury took less than four hours to reach a unanimous verdict. The defendants, both 39, remained expressionless in court as the decision was handed down.
They had pleaded not guilty, and accused police of beating them into confessing while in custody.
Prosecutors said the men had been offered HK$100,000 (US$12,900) each to carry out the hit, without elaborating on the source of the offer.
They said Yip had told police he had driven Wong to a street where Lau usually ate after being offered the money, and that there was CCTV footage of the two near Lau’s home ahead of the attack.
Yip, an electrician, said he only went to the area to find an ex-boss who owed him wages.
Both men were detained in China’s mainland before being returned to Hong Kong in March last year.
During the trial Lau, 50, who was stabbed six times, recalled how he was attacked by “a hard object” before a motorcycle carrying two men sped off.
The attack came just weeks after Lau was removed from his post at Ming Pao.
Yip and Wong will be sentenced on August 21.
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