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Thomas Chan

A former tutorial school boss arranged for renovation workers to go to a woman's home as a practical joke and yelled dirty words at the brother of a former student, a court heard yesterday.
Luk Chi-wing, 50, pleaded not guilty to six charges, including fraud and offences related to telephone calls, before Kwun Tong Deputy Magistrate Vennie Chiu Wai-yee.
Giving evidence as prosecution witness, interior design company owner Chan Man-ying said she received a call from a man on June 17 last year, asking her to take measurements at a Yuk Ming Court flat in Hang Hau for the purpose of renovation.
Chan said: "He gave me phone numbers of a Mrs Leung or Miss Chan. He asked me to go to the flat that night and not to notify the security guards."
Feeling suspicious, Chan searched the address online and found it was previously involved in another prank call court case. She then sent an email to police.
The following day, she received another call from the man, asking why she did not go the previous night.
Upon his insistence, she visited the flat at 5pm on June 18 and found a piece of paper on the door, reading: "Police will be called if you knock the door."
It added: "I will pick up guests who have made an appointment at the lobby."
Chan left immediately and the man called her a third time on June 19, again demanding she visit the flat.
Cross-examined by defence counsel Albert Luk Wai-hung, Chan said the voice was strange to her and she did not know who was calling.
The court heard Luk was arrested at his school in Kwun Tong on October 14 last year.
When Luk was brought to court the first time to face these charges, the prosecution told the court Luk had also harassed the sergeant investigating the case. But he was acquitted of that at Eastern Court last month.
Yesterday, the court also heard from another victim Cheung Chun-pang, who said he received two calls from a man at about 4pm on August 11 last year, looking for his mother.
Cheung said: "The man said: 'Can I speak to Mrs Cheung?' He repeated it for six or seven times…He then paused and repeated it again 10 times."
The court heard the man ended the first call by yelling dirty words at Cheung.
The man then called Cheung and shouted the same dirty words for a second time.
The two phone calls lasted for "one minute and 10-odd seconds", respectively.
Cheung said that he could recognise the voice of the man in the calls belonged to Luk as he was his younger brother's tutorial teacher between 2001 and 2003. The court heard Cheung and Luk spoke to each other briefly during that period of time.
When cross-examined by the defence counsel, Cheung admitted the caller never revealed his identity in the calls and that he had not chatted with Luk since 2003.
The trial continues today.


Prank caller repeatedly sent renovators to flat and shouted dirty words at former student's brother, court hears

Giving evidence as prosecution witness, interior design company owner Chan Man-ying said she received a call from Luk on June 17 last year, asking her to take measurements at a Yuk Ming Court flat in Hang Hau for the purpose of renovation. Photo: AFP

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