Hong Kong couple's quest for justice for wrongly accused teenage Occupy protester
Retired couple prove wrongly accused student protester innocent thanks to being in the right time at the right place, several times over
A retired couple's mission to prove 17-year-old student Ho Pak-hei innocent of assaulting a police officer during the Occupy protests was set in motion by a series of chance events.
First of all, of course, was the fact that Yeung Chui-ping and her husband Helbert Lau had been at the scene and had captured on video the incident that led to Ho's arrest on November 28 in Mong Kok.
They also knew who he was: Ho had followed the protesters' protocol of shouting out his name as he was taken away by officers.
The couple said they had gone to the protest that night as they wanted to witness first-hand the goings-on, rather than read about it in the news or watch it on the television.
The couple later spoke of Ho to a friend when they voiced their concerns about whether those arrested in the protests were getting proper assistance from the volunteer lawyers.
That might have been the end of the story, with the teenager's claims of innocence having to be duly weighed against the word of constable Lau Kam-wing in court.