No jail for Hong Kong woman who assaulted policeman with breast
Ng Lai-ying, 30, gets sentence changed to community service after judge learns she bumped officer with chest only to help boyfriend
Ng Lai-ying, 30, was originally jailed three months and 15 days, but was instead ordered to serve 200 hours of community service after successfully appealing against her sentence for assaulting Chief Inspector Chan Ka-po last month.
At a protest in Yuen Long against mainland parallel traders on March 1 last year, Ng used her breast to bump Chan and subsequently yelled “indecent assault”.
Kwong, 20, who obstructed Chan, was sentenced to 12 months of probation.
Their co-defendant Poon Tsz-hang, 22, and a 16-year-old boy, who was 15 at the time and therefore has not been named, were sentenced to 200 hours of community service and 12 months of probation respectively.
They all failed to appeal against their convictions, but won the bid against the original heavier sentence imposed on them.
Sentencing the four, the judge urged the then “reckless and impulsive” Ng to listen to the probation officer to be supervising her.
“Do not perform the duty just fine ... You need to perform it up to others’ expectation,” she told Ng.
The judge warned all four not to commit new offences during the sentencing, and told the boy specifically to avoid people probation officers advised against.
Outside court, Kwong said they would continue to take part in protests in the future.
“Caring [about] society is a civic responsibility,” he said.
But he added that they would comply with the law and be reasonable.
During the trial, the Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Court heard the boy was the first to bump the inspector with his shoulder on the road at Sau Fu Street. Kwong obstructed Chan when he tried to stop the inspector from catching the boy.
Chan accused Ng of assaulting him by bumping him with her chest and yelling “police indecent assault”, when she tried to make Chan let go of Kwong.
