Voice told Hong Kong restaurant worker to throw chair that killed passer-by, court hears
Kitchen helper hurled object, fracturing man's skull, after a voice in his head told him to
A restaurant kitchen helper heard a voice in his head that told him to hurl a chair from the roof of a Mong Kok building a year ago, killing a passer-by, a court heard yesterday.
Tong Mong-leong, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter before High Court judge Mrs Justice Judianna Barnes Wai-ling.
He had received treatment for mental illness at Kwai Chung Hospital between March and May last year, defence lawyer Lawrence Hui Cheuk-lun told the court.
But at about midnight on June 10, a swivel chair crashed down onto the head of Wong Wai-tak, 29, as he was walking along Sai Yeung Choi Street with two friends towards Argyle Street, prosecutor Rosaline Leung Sun-yee said.
The force left a 10cm gaping fracture on the left side of Wong's skull and exposed the underlying brain tissue, she added.
An autopsy report said: "The injury was so severe that it could have caused death within a short period due to massive bleeding and brain dysfunction."
