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Youth assaulted 'for staring'

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A TEENAGER punched and kicked a youth after accusing him of staring at another person, the District Court heard yesterday.

The victim suffered abrasions to his face, lips and back, a cut forehead and a nosebleed in the attack in a video games centre.

Wong Chung-keung, 18, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm on teenager Leung Lun-fun. He also pleaded guilty to three separate counts of burglary.

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Wong admitted stealing 380 cartons of cigarettes, two Wah Kiu Commercial Bank cheques and $26,400 in cash from three shops in Wong Tai Sin in February last year.

Judge Britton sent him to a training centre.

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Prosecuting counsel Mr Selwyn Aun told the court that on February 6 last year, Lun-fun was playing video games at the Dim Amusement Games Centre in Wan Fung Street, Tsz Wan Shan.

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