Nuisance call appeal dismissed

A STUDENT who made 67 nuisance telephone calls to his former headmaster five years after he had been expelled failed to convince a High Court judge yesterday that he had been wrongly convicted.

Mr Justice Leonard rejected Wo Hang's argument that he had good reason to make the calls and dismissed his appeal.

Wo, 21, had been found guilty by Magistrate Kevin Ball of making persistent telephone calls without reasonable excuse. He was bound over in the sum of $1,000 for 18 months.

The court heard that Fung Ying-luen, headmaster of Chang Ming Thien College in Shekkipmei, began to receive abusive phone calls from Wo, a student who had been expelled in 1987.

Between September 22 and 25, 1992, 67 calls were traced to Wo's home.