Hong Kong man jailed for nearly 7 years for drug offences, using overdose victim’s identity card in bid to fool police
- Mok Chi-ho, 35, hid his true identity from police after reporting his boyfriend had fallen into a coma in hotel room where stash of drugs was found
- Mok, a serial offender, was wanted by police in connection with three criminal cases
A courier has been jailed for nearly seven years for drug offences and perverting the course of justice after he admitted switching his Hong Kong identity card with a man who died of an overdose in a hotel room to impede a police investigation into him.
The High Court heard Mok Chi-ho, 35, hid his true identity from police after reporting that his boyfriend was in coma in a room in the Emperor Hotel in Happy Valley, where a stash of drugs and apparatus for consumption were found on April 17, 2021.
The unconscious man, Chan Tsz-chung, was naked and confirmed dead by paramedics who rushed to the hotel.
The accused at first claimed he was Chan by showing police the latter’s ID card, but officers found in an identity check two days later that his appearance did not match the photo shown on the ID card he had said was his.
The courier, when asked about the discrepancy, admitted he was Mok, who was wanted by police in connection with three other criminal cases.
Further inquiries revealed Mok and former salesman Andy Lam Chi-tak, 38, had met Chan and an unidentified man in the hotel room earlier that day for sex.
Mok said he believed Chan had by mistake swallowed an excessive amount of gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), a date rape drug, which killed him.
Officers later seized from Mok and Lam a wide variety of drugs, including more than 40 grams of Ice, 0.87 grams of Ecstasy and more than 5.7 litres of GBL, which was stored in three separate locations.
