A 52-year-old woman arrested for throwing a plastic bag containing two apples from a Shek Kip Mei public housing block on Wednesday is suspected of being linked to six other cases involving dangerous objects being thrown from the same building, police said yesterday.
Excluding Wednesday's case, there have been at least six reports of objects thrown from Block 11 at Pak Tin Estate in the past two months, according to Chief Inspector Tommy Tang Wai-keung. He said objects thrown included a 7kg sledgehammer, a chopper, a pair of scissors, an empty plastic bottle and a metal can. There were no reported injuries.
'All the objects were thrown into the open space outside Block 11 just below the suspect's unit,' he said. 'Preliminary investigations showed that the objects fell from the lower floors of the building.'
Tang said the woman was a suspect in relation to the other offences and officers were gathering evidence and awaiting test results.
The woman was taken back to her flat for a search yesterday afternoon, when officers collected paint samples to compare with those collected from the sledgehammer, Tang said.
The woman, who lives alone in a sixth-floor flat, has a history of mental illness, according to a police officer. 'She had been arrested for hurling a plastic bag of rubbish out of the window of her flat in August,' he said. She had denied any links to objects thrown from the building.