A local parallel goods trader was yesterday jailed for two months and 20 days after attacking and threatening two MTR employees at Sheung Shui station.
Chow Hon-wai, 51, was also ordered to pay his two victims HK$900 compensation.
Fanling magistrate Wong Sze-lai called Chow's actions "disgraceful and barbaric".
Wong said Chow had tried to mislead police officers with his allegation that he had been beaten by the MTR employees after his outburst at Sheung Shui.
Yesterday, Chow pleaded guilty to all three charges of common assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and criminal intimidation.
The court heard that at about 1.30pm on November 29, Chow had quarrelled with MTR employee Pang Kwok-wai, who was controlling traders packing their goods on the Sheung Shui station concourse.