Waiters accused of assisting rapist and blackmail

Two waiters appeared in Eastern Court yesterday charged with blackmail and aiding and abetting rape. Yau Chi-man, 21, and Choi Wing-kok, 20, allegedly helped an unknown person to rape a woman on July 18 in an apartment on Lamma Island and demanded HK$120,000 from the victim. They did not enter pleas. The case was adjourned until Friday.