5 men allegedly behind plot against Hong Kong police planned similar attack earlier, court told

Prosecutors say plot mastermind Ng Chi-hung’s team had thought of using violence against police as early as July 2019

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Seven people have been charged under the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance for their alleged involvement in a bomb plot against police on December 8, 2019. Photo: Winson Wong

Published: 6:22pm, 2 Aug 2024

Five men in a team allegedly behind a foiled plan to kill Hong Kong police with explosives during the 2019 social unrest were plotting a similar attack before partnering with the “Dragon Slaying Brigade” in a bigger conspiracy, prosecutors has told the High Court.

Continuing the prosecution’s closing submission, Juliana Chow Hoi-ling on Friday told the trial’s jurors that those allegedly in plot mastermind Ng Chi-hung’s team – including Ng himself – had thought of using violence against police as early as July 2019.

The five-man team had already developed a plan that involved guns and bombs before Ng asked the brigade’s leader, Wong Chun-keung, to work with his group.

Seven people have been charged under the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance for their alleged connection to a plot to plant two bombs in Wan Chai on December 8, 2019.

Ng and two members of his team, David Su and Eddie Pang Kwan-ho, pleaded guilty to the charges, with Su and Pang also turning prosecution witnesses. The remaining two – Lai Chun-pong and Justin Hui Cham-wing – pleaded not guilty.

Su earlier admitted to the court that he was assigned by Ng to be a sniper and had been positioned to kill police from a building.

The prosecutor on Thursday told the trial’s nine jurors that the brigade had entered into the conspiracy after its leader, Wong, met Ng on November 18 to discuss their teams’ respective roles in the attack planned for December 8.