Two men involved in a plot to throw highly corrosive acid at a lawyer, to stop him from prosecuting a case, were jailed for 12 years at the Court of First Instance on Friday.
So Ka-wai, 30, and Chan Lap-tak, 35, each pleaded guilty to a count of conspiring to throw corrosive liquid with the intent of grievously injuring barrister Neil Mitchell on October 27, 2009.
Mitchell was then the prosecutor in a District Court criminal case against lawyer Kevin Kong Hon-yui, who was later jailed for six years for money laundering and fraud.
The imprisonment of So and Chan increased to eight the number of people jailed in connection with the attack. In April last year, six men, aged between 19 and 44, were jailed for 10 to 12 years.
On Friday, Mrs Justice Judianna Barnes Wai-ling called the attack “serious and despicable”, and a “cold-blooded attack on a stranger”.
“This case is particularly serious because the aim of the attack is to stop the victim from appearing in court in his capacity as a prosecutor,” Barnes said.