Teen tells Hong Kong court only involvement in September restaurant assault was tailing rights activist, driving attackers
- The 15-year-old says he was paid HK$3,000 for his role, while co-defendant Lo Kin-wa, 29, pleads guilty to charges including conspiracy to cause bodily harm
- Civil Human Rights Front convenor Jimmy Sham describes shock of attack, as he watched a friend sitting next to him struck repeatedly with a baseball bat
A 15-year-old Hong Kong boy has denied being part of a conspiracy to attack Civil Human Rights Front convenor Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit last August but admitted tailing the activist and transporting his two assailants for HK$3,000, despite being too young to hold a licence.
“I was only responsible for driving the car,” prosecutors said the teen told the police who arrested him in September.
Details of the case were revealed in the District Court on Monday, where Sham testified about the alarming attack in which a friend was struck three times by a baseball bat as they had lunch together at a restaurant.
The boy pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to cause Sham grievous bodily harm and taking a car without authority, but admitted to driving without a licence or third-party insurance.
His co-defendant, salesman Lo Kin-wa, 29, pleaded guilty to all of the above charges, with the exception of driving without a licence, for which he has not been charged.