Poster 'vandal' held

POLICE arrested a 46-year-old man for allegedly damaging a district board member's placard in Wong Tai Sin yesterday.

The suspect was seen kicking and dismantling the two-metre placard hanging on a 1.5-metre wall outside Lam Man-fai's ward office at Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate in Sha Tin Pass Road.

Mr Lam of the pro-China Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong is seeking another term in the elections.

His assistant, Lam Mei-chun, said the incident occurred at about noon when office staff were staging a free barber's service.

'We heard some noise and when I turned round I saw a middle-aged man kicking and dismantling the placard,' Miss Lam said.

'One of the office workers overpowered him,' she said.