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Lara Mahbubani
Lara Mahbubani
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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Lara is a student at Kellett, the British International School in Hong Kong. She has a profound interest in journalism and intends to study media communications at university. She is also an avid guitarist and a well-rounded athlete.

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.

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