A construction worker who pricked women with toothpicks and wire in Tuen Mun said he did so because he could not resist their 'big buttocks'.
Pham Van Diep, 43, a Vietnamese resident of Tuen Mun, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm yesterday at Tuen Mun Court for pricking two women, one on September 28 at San Hui Market, and the other on Monday on Yan Ching Street.
When police arrested him, he said he found the buttocks of the women were big and so he pricked them once out of impulse, the court heard.
A lawyer for Diep said he had drunk rice wine and beer before the incidents.
Principle Magistrate Kwok Wai-kin said Diep had spread fear among many women in Tuen Mun that they would be attacked with infected syringes. Diep's attacks made headlines last week and raised fears in Tuen Mun of attacks akin to those reported in Xinjiang last month.
The woman in the first incident, Chai Wai-ying, 20, was shopping with her sister at the market when she felt a prick.