A 44-year-old police sergeant and a 31-year-old detective constable were charged yesterday with misconduct in public office after a woman complained they refused to record a case she brought to their attention at Wan Chai police station. The woman said she tried to report someone taking photos up women's skirts and gave the officers a memory card she had found containing such photos, but they destroyed the card. The pair will appear in Eastern Court on Monday.
Two Chinese banyans in Central and Western District listed on the register of "old and valuable" trees were removed because they were at risk of collapse. The trunk of one, an 11-metre tree at the junction of Smithfield and Lung Wah streets, was damaged in a typhoon in 2008. The other, standing 19 metres on the old section of Pok Fu Lam Road outside a playground, had a severe fungal infection.