A station sergeant who survived a gunshot but died weeks later on a jogging track had suffered from poor health and mental stress after being shot, an inquest heard yesterday.
Wong Siu-pang, 44, had been in good shape before the shooting despite a history of high blood pressure and had taken part in a marathon, his wife Hung Wai-man told the coroner's court.
But after he was shot in an Aberdeen underpass last September, he had trouble sleeping and worried about his physical condition and their sex life, Ms Hung said.
A doctor who gave evidence, however, rejected suggestions that Wong's injuries could have caused a sudden surge in blood pressure. Wong was injured after an emotionally disturbed constable grabbed another officer's revolver. The gun went off, wounding Wong's right inner thigh and scrotum.
Ms Hung said that despite her husband's first diagnosis of hypertension in 2000, he had maintained good health - he ran 8km to 10km daily and took part in a marathon in Holland.
'But after the gunshot, his health deteriorated, he was always tired and he couldn't sleep at night.'
They went jogging at Wan Chai Sports Ground with a doctor's approval. But on the morning of October 3, he collapsed after an hour of slow jogging and died after heart surgery at Queen Mary Hospital.