Hong Kong judge offers sympathy to man he jails for stabbing three people at Lennon Wall, while likening black-clad protesters to ‘terrorist army’
- Tour guide Tony Hung, 51, jailed for 45 months for attacking reporter and two others with knife after a heated discussion on current affairs
- Judge says black-clad protesters ganged up and fundamentally changed Hong Kong with extremist conduct reminiscent of Cultural Revolution
A judge on Friday compared black-clad “Cultural Revolution-like” protesters to a terrorist army that had brought fundamental change to Hong Kong, as he expressed sympathy for a tour guide he jailed for 45 months for stabbing three people at a popular site for anti-government messages.
The District Court heard Tony Hung Chun, 51, attacked a newspaper reporter and two others with a 31cm (12-inch) beef knife in Tseung Kwan O after a discussion over current affairs inside a pedestrian tunnel – used by protesters as a so-called Lennon Wall – became heated in the small hours of August 20 last year.
The frenzied knife attack left the three victims, aged 24 to 35, needing hospital treatment, with the reporter in critical condition after the blade pierced her back with a force that fractured a rib and bruised a lung.
Prosecutors revealed that Hung was armed with a second weapon, a 29cm (11-inch) kitchen knife, which he had also collected from his home just before the attack.
Hung pleaded guilty in December to three counts of wounding with intent, an offence punishable by life imprisonment but capped at seven years in the District Court, and apologised to his victims, the court and the community.
