'My pelvic bone blocked the knife': Kevin Lau says his attacker showed no mercy
Former Ming Pao chief speaks about attack for first time
The former Ming Pao chief editor, who is recovering from injuries sustained in a chopping attack, says he doubts it was intended as a warning and instead was an attempt on his life.
Kevin Lau Chun-to was commenting on the February 27 attack for the first time, in an article published on the newspaper's website yesterday.
Lau also recalled how he remained conscious after he was chopped six times with a meat cleaver in an ambush in Sai Wan Ho, leaving deep gashes to his legs that exposed vital organs.
No motive has been established for the attack, which police say was a "classic triad hit", where a pillion passenger leapt off a motorcycle and slashed Lau from behind. Lau was still being treated in hospital yesterday while police searched for two suspects.
In the article, Lau said he "doubted" suggestions that his attackers may have been wanting to injure him, not kill him.
"Several experienced doctors have told me that, judging from my wounds, the attackers' aim was to punish and threaten [me], rather than taking my life," Lau wrote. "But plunging a knife into someone's back can do some serious damage. Just a millimetre in variation could have had a very different outcome.
"As I lay in my hospital bed, I wondered why the knife had stopped just before it entered my lung and spleen, without really damaging my organs."