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A man was tortured for 3 weeks, killed then thrown to a dam in 2004

A man was tortured for 3 weeks, killed then thrown to a dam in 2004

“Eleven people, including a 15 -year -old girl, were arrested yesterday for killing a mental disabled man, who believes he died after being tortured,” the morning post from South China reported on March 13, 2004. “The police said that the victim had been tortured for a few weeks.

“It is assumed that the victim had been hit, hit and beaten with water pipes on different occasions in three different residential units in Shamshuipo,” said an officer. “He was last beaten on Sunday night before he was led to Hunghom and thrown on a street next to the ferry dam.”

How South China Morning Post reported arrests in March 2004. Photo: SCMP archives
How South China Morning Post reported arrests in March 2004. Photo: SCMP archives

“Six men and three women – many of whom are also mentally disabled – were rounded when about 90 officers attacked 19 houses in Kowloon, The New Territories and Lantau. The suspects were between 15 and 38 years old. Some of those arrested are believed to have been friends with the victim, Wong Wai-Hung, 27. His body was found stretched between two cars near the Wah Shun Street Ferry dam in Hunghom at 6.30, Monday.

“Wong, who had a light mental handicap, worked as a security guard, but gave up work last month, said a police source. He had moved from his family’s apartment in Shekkipma a few years ago and lived with a friend in Shamshuipo. His parents called the police after seeing photos with him in the newspapers. “

Two years later, on January 4, 2006, The Post reported: “A man was lifetime yesterday to kill a security guard who was subjected to repeated beats for a period of three weeks. Lin Siuu-lun, 33 years old, was sentenced to life behind bars for the killing of Wong Wai-Hung, a 27-year-old, a light retarded security guard whose corpse was found in Wah Shun Street, Hunghom, in the morning of March 8, 2004.

See from the North Point of Hung Hom Ferry Pier, in front of the Kerry hotel. Photo: Roy Issa
See from the North Point of Hung Hom Ferry Pier, in front of the Kerry hotel. Photo: Roy Issa

“Wong was beaten for a period of almost three weeks over a debt of $ 6,700. A postmortem exam revealed over 100 wounds only on the back. Lin and eight other people involved in Wong’s death and in the subsequent storage of his body were condemned by Mr. Justice Pang Kin-Kee in the courtyard.