Pair paid to attack ex-editor, trial told
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Two men charged with a knife assault on the former editor of a Hong Kong newspaper were offered HK$100,000 (US$13,000) each to carry out the attack, prosecutors said yesterday.
Kevin Lau, former editor of the Ming Pao newspaper, was left in critical condition after he was attacked by two men in February last year, who then escaped on a motorbike.
On the first day of their trial yesterday, Yip Kim-wah, 39, and Wong Chi-wah, 37, pled not guilty at the High Court to charges of malicious wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
“Neither of them knew Kevin Lau. For rewards, he was chopped several times... six in total,” prosecutor Nicholas Adams said.
Adams said the pair had been offered HK$100,000 each for the hit, without saying who had made the offer.
Lau, 50, told the court how he had been attacked as he got out of his car to go for breakfast. “I felt I was hit by a hard object — my legs felt numb. I lifted my head wanting to know what happened and saw a motorcycle.”
Lau said he saw one man hop on the back of the bike as the driver sped off.
“I saw blood on my palm and my leg had no power, I had to sit on the floor. I knew then I was injured so I called the police.
“I laid on my back as I was worried I would be losing too much blood,” he said.
Lau spent five months in hospital after the attack and still needs physiotherapy three times a week for his legs.
Yip and Wong were denied bail in June last year after being detained in the neighboring province of Guangdong and sent back to Hong Kong.
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