A Hong Kong policeman who fatally shot a young man in an interrogation room in 1997 had been seeing psychologists, it turned out. Convicted of manslaughter, he was sent to a psychiatric centre.
A man convicted of robbing a Hong Kong watch shop in 1962 asked the judge to sentence him to be hanged, saying he was a police informer and would be killed if he went to prison. He got 10½ years in jail.