Judge rejects claim attacker hit wrong victim
Four convicted after umbrella assault on late billionaire's nephew in Nina Tower car park
A man who used an umbrella to bash the nephew of late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum claimed yesterday he had hit the wrong man.
Pakistani Abbas Yasir, 32, told the District Court he had mistaken businessman Kung Ho, 36, as the driver of a car that had almost hit him a few days earlier. He said the driver had scolded him and he wanted to take revenge.
Judge David Dufton rejected Yasir's explanation, saying evidence showed Kung walked towards Yasir, who should have been able to see his face clearly.
Pleading guilty to one charge of wounding with intent, Yasir insisted he acted alone after being granted dispensation to contest that part of the police case.
But Dufton convicted Malik Zohaib Naeem, 27, Iqbal Pervaiz, 25, and Ravi Dass, 28, who were also arrested at the scene and had pleaded not guilty to the same charge. He ruled they had participated in the attack.
The court heard the four defendants had loitered in the car park of Nina Tower in Tsuen Wan on June 7 last year. When Kung walked into the lift lobby with his wife, they attacked him.
