Kevin Lau 'triad' attack reconstructed as police pore over CCTV footage

Police have pored over hundreds of surveillance tapes to try to single out the two motorcycle hitmen in the attack on former Ming Pao chief editor Kevin Lau Chun-to and identify their escape route, a police source has revealed.

Watched by more than 100 officers, the two men accused of being those hitmen were taken, hooded and chained, to seven locations across the city yesterday in a bid to reconstruct the crime.

Officers believe the pair, who are both aged 37 and are understood to be friends, stole a motorbike in Luen Wo Hui, Fanling, in the middle of last month, parked it in Devon Road, Kowloon Tong, and retrieved it on the morning of the attack, February 26.

After the man riding pillion was said to have leapt from the motorcycle to attack Lau with a meat cleaver in Tai Hong Street, Sai Wan Ho, the hitmen allegedly abandoned the bike nearby.

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