More people may be arrested and prosecuted in the case of six men who pleaded guilty to being involved in an acid attack against a prosecutor, a court heard yesterday.
The comment was made by a defence lawyer in the Court of First Instance, where six people pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to throw a corrosive fluid with intent in an attack on Neil Mitchell on October 27, 2009, outside the District Court building in Wan Chai.
Mitchell had been acting as prosecutor in the case against solicitor Kevin Kong Hon-yui.
Kong was jailed for six years in December 2009 after he was convicted on charges of conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to defraud in a bank mortgage scam involving loans worth HK$10.9 million.
Albert Luk, a barrister for Lai Kwok-leung, 38, who was one of the six, said yesterday: 'In future, other persons may be arrested, may be prosecuted.'
He also said his client had given a statement to police and was prepared to give more.