A disgraced former school supervisor, found to have conned a parent into granting HK$200,000 to help fund a merger that later failed, has been sent to jail for 15 months.
Carman Liang Shuk-ching, a former winner of the Medal of Honour and described as a passionate and dedicated educator, was sentenced in the District Court yesterday on one count of fraud.
Deputy Judge Don So Man-lung said the offence involved a large amount of money and a violation of integrity.
Liang, 47, a former supervisor of the Pegasus Philip Wong Kin Hang Christian School, who had pleaded not guilty, had been in custody since she was convicted earlier this month. She was cleared of a second fraud charge related to another loan to the school.
Liang was found to have induced Tam Chi-shuk to pay HK$200,000 to Pegasus Social Service Christian Organisation, then the school's sponsoring body, to help fund a proposed merger of the Kwun Tong school with Sear Rogers International School.
Tam told the court that Liang had persuaded her to grant the loan to repay debentures to parents at Sear Rogers as a precondition for the merger. In fact, the school had never granted such debentures.
The court heard yesterday that Liang had recently repaid the money to Tam.