Update | CY Leung asks public to give daughter 'space' after ambulance summoned to Government House
CY Leung this afternoon made a plea to the public to give his daughter space, after an ambulance was summoned to Government House following a series of Facebook posts by the 23-year-old.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying this afternoon held a rare press conference on his personal life, telling the city's media there was no domestic violence in his family home, following allegations made by his daughter on social media.
CY Leung made a plea to the public to give his 23-year-old daughter Chai-yan space, after a spate of Facebook posts this morning that alleged she had been pushed and slapped by her mother and was planning to leave home.
In an unusually personal response to this morning's widely reported events, during which an ambulance and police were summoned to the family home, he said Chai-yan had been suffering "health problems" and had been emotionally unstable since she started her studies in the UK.
"As a daughter of a public officer, she has been facing tremendous pressure in life," Leung said.
"Meanwhile, there are many public functions at the Government House and therefore she could not have a quiet environment to recover." Leung declined to reveal any more details about Chai-yan's health.