The widow of a homeless Nepali man shot dead by a police officer in Ho Man Tin in 2009 has failed yet again to have a decision that her husband was lawfully killed reviewed.
Sony Rai expressed disappointment yesterday after the Court of First Instance rejected her application for a judicial review of an earlier ruling by the coroner's court.
Rai said: 'I can't understand why it was considered that the police officer had no alternative but to fatally shoot my husband, a small man who had nothing but part of a chair leg in his hand on that day.'
Police constable Hui Ka-ki shot Limbu on a hillside on March 17, 2009. He maintained that he fired in self-defence.
Rai's lawyers sought to challenge the verdict, which was returned by a jury before Coroner William Ng Sing-wai, on May 25 last year. They alleged bias, misdirection and that the scope of the inquest was too narrow.
The judgment came just over a week after the application was heard. Mr Justice Anselmo Reyes yesterday dismissed all grounds of the challenge.