Police are looking for two primary school pupils who are accused of extorting HK$1,500 from an eight-year-old schoolmate who stole from his grandmother to pay them.
The pair, aged nine or 10, are alleged to have intercepted and demanded money from the boy in a park outside the Long Ping Estate in Yuen Long several times last week.
'They threatened to assault the victim if he failed to pay,' a police officer said.
The victim, a Primary Two pupil, returned to the flat on the Sau Ping House, in the same estate, where he has lived with his 67-year-old grandmother since his parents divorced, and stole the money.
He handed a total of HK$1,500 to the extortionists on three occasions between last Wednesday and Friday, police said.
The grandmother found the money missing from her drawer on Monday night. When she shouted at her grandson, a neighbour, fearing she was abusing him, called the police at about 10pm.