Hong Kong secondary school teacher hands himself in after 29 pets hurled from window of New Territories block
- Nine chinchillas, a guinea pig, cat and two rabbits among animals killed in fall from New Territories block
- Two arrested in connection with the incident – a secondary school teacher and a man believed to be his partner
A 49-year-old man who surrendered himself to police over the discovery of 29 pets apparently hurled off a high-rise tower is a secondary school teacher in Hong Kong, it emerged on Tuesday.
Fifteen of the animals – nine chinchillas, a guinea pig, a cat, two rabbits, a parrot and a rodent – died from the fall.
The 14 surviving pets – nine cats and five chinchillas – were sent to a clinic in the Wan Chai headquarters of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), for examination and treatment.
A police source said another man, who is believed to be the teacher’s boyfriend, was also arrested when he turned himself in on Tuesday. The two were held for questioning.
“It remains to be seen if they [the animals] can make a recovery,” the source said on Tuesday.
The pets were all found on a path and hillside area behind block 19 of private housing estate Hong Kong Garden, off the Tsing Lung Tau section of Castle Peak Road in the New Territories last Friday.
