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SCMP Reporter

A court yesterday heard how an illegal immigrant chose the wrong family to rob in Tuen Mun.

The chopper-wielding burglar was bashed unconscious during a wild brawl where  the family pummelled him with a hammer and chairs, and finally pinned him under an old door.

The story unfolded in the Court of First Instance where 22-year-old mainlander Wong Bing was jailed for five years.

He had pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and assault with intent to rob.

Prosecutor Crystal Chan said that at 3am on May 1, Wong sneaked into the ground floor of a two-storey village house in Wan Shan Road, Tsing Shan Tsuen, and took a chopper from the kitchen.

He woke occupant Chiu Wah-sheung  and held the weapon to his throat. When Mr Chiu tried to get up, Wong slashed the left side of his face and demanded money.

After ransacking the premises and finding nothing valuable, he dragged  Mr Chiu out of bed and forced him to walk upstairs with him to the second flat.

When Siu Ka-keung opened the door, Wong demanded money. When he said he had none, Wong slashed Mr Siu on the wrist, inflicting a severe wound.

Mr Siu screamed out to his family to help and a fight ensued, with Mr Siu and Wong tumbling down the stairs.

Mr Siu's son armed his badly injured father with a hammer, which was used to bludgeon Wong about the head.

Mr Siu's wife then entered the fray, bashing Wong with two plastic stools and trapping him under a discarded door.

Wong was unconscious by the time police arrived.

Sent to Tuen Mun Hospital, the robber did not regain consciousness for an hour.

Mr Siu needed surgery to repair severed tendons in his wrist.

'It must have been a terrifying experience for Mr Chiu and Mr  Siu's family to be woken up from sleep at one's own home and either being attacked oneself or witnessing the attack on one's loved ones by a stranger holding a chopper,' Deputy High Court Judge Judianna Barnes Wai-ling said.

The judge said she took a very serious view of the case as Wong had had no hesitation in resorting to violence and had inflicted injuries on the occupants.



Hapless home-invader picked the wrong family to mess with