Former leader CY Leung’s ‘smug’ face invited me to throw a tuna sandwich at him, says Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner

The hurled snack hit a police officer when Leung ducked it, in what the accused, Avery Ng Man-yuen, called a “spineless” evasion.

But Leung told the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday that he never made eye contact with Ng during the episode and did not know the League of Social Democrats member was there.

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The former chief executive added that he was “in a panic” and “very scared” after seeing an object flying towards him.

Ng said the stunt was part of a protest about the plight of the city’s elderly poor.

He has denied one charge of common assault on the police officer, Lau Wing-kwan.