Man jailed for violent attacks in Hong Kong’s nightlife neighbourhood
- Limbu Jun-kang, 26, mugged two people five days apart in November 2017, leaving one of them in hospital for three days
- The sentencing judge exercised clemency on account of Limbu’s mental difficulties
A Muay Thai enthusiast was jailed for four years and nine months on Wednesday for two violent robberies in Hong Kong’s SoHo neighbourhood, though he was also shown mercy by a judge on account of his mental troubles.
In the space of six days in November 2017, Limbu Jun-kang grabbed and punched two victims before taking a total of HK$1,720 (US$220) from them in Central, the High Court had heard in August when he confessed his crime.
He hit one of the victims on the head with a bottle, the court then heard.
Sentencing Limbu on Wednesday, deputy High Court judge Andrew Bruce described his act as “substantial violence”, as the 26-year-old looked specifically for intoxicated targets that were “less able to resist” his attempts at robbery.
But the judge also had mercy for him, granting him a discount on jail term, after acknowledging that the mental conditions and delays in treating them had taken a toll on Limbu, who was originally Chan King-tung until he adopted a Nepalese name in 2016 as a sign of respect for a Nepalese neighbour who had been kind to him.