A 22-year-old man was arrested yesterday and held overnight after his 76-year-old father was found dead on a footpath in Wong Tai Sin with multiple wounds on his head and limbs - after the body had been moved from another location.
The body was on a pedestrian walkway outside Luk Ching House, Choi Hung Estate, when medical officers arrived at the scene at about 1.30am yesterday. The man's 59-year-old wife admitted moving her husband from the spot where they had been waiting for the officers.
The dead man's son, surnamed Kwong, who was supposed to be with him, was not present when the officers arrived. Police found him later at home on nearby Ping Shek Estate. No charges had been laid last night.
Neighbours said the young man appeared to be mentally disabled. An officer in charge of the case said the son was not mentally ill.
It was not certain how and when the man died, or why his family moved him away from where he was supposed to have collapsed, he said.
Police received a call from Mrs Kwong at 1.19am saying her husband was unwell and that they were at a bus stop on Kwun Tong Road.
But when ambulance officers arrived at 1.31am, the family was nowhere to be seen. They called Mrs Kwong, who said she and her son had moved her husband to a spot outside Luk Ching House. She returned to the bus stop to lead the ambulance officers to the place.