Taxi driver who reportedly wore bulletproof vest on her shift appears in Tuen Mun Court on weapon charge

A female part-time taxi driver who allegedly wore a bulletproof vest and motorcycle helmet and kept a knife in her taxi on her day shift on Sunday was ordered by a court to stay off the roads while her case was processed.

Sum Siu-fong, 57, was charged with one count of possessing an offensive weapon, to which she entered no plea at Tuen Mun Court yesterday.

The prosecution dropped a second charge - that of possessing an imitation firearm in the form of a pistol-like airgun - just before the court session.

The prosecutor told the court that Sum reacted emotionally after she was arrested at Lung Mun Oasis residential estate on Lung Mun Road.

"She kept murmuring to herself and gave answers unrelated to the points raised during the investigation."