A 12-YEAR-OLD boy in trouble for playing truant may have been killed before he mysteriously plunged from a block of flats.
The Coroner's Court was told Ho Tai-wai had suspicious injuries, including a broken spine, which were probably inflicted before the fall.
The jury decided there was not enough evidence to say Ho was unlawfully killed and returned an open verdict.
Pathologist Dr Beh Swan-lip said the injuries could have been caused by strangulation or by the boy being put in an arm-hold.
But extensive police inquiries failed to find a witness to the fall, or a suspect.
Ho was found dead on September 20 at the foot of a 10-storey block on King's Road, North Point, hours after being scolded by his parents for skipping school.
