Friend hurt protecting Hong Kong activist Jimmy Sham during attack seeks leniency for two conspirators in plot
- Defence counsel reveals that Law Kwok-wai had approached him to say he did not want a heavy sentence for the defendants as he had forgiven them
- The pair, a 15-year-old boy and salesman Lo Kin-wa, 29, will be sentenced next Monday over attack carried out by two assailants still at large
Defence counsel Oliver Davies on Wednesday revealed that Sham’s friend, Law Kwok-wai, who was injured in the incident, had approached him to say he did not want a heavy sentence for the defendants because he had forgiven them.
The two defendants, a 15-year-old boy and salesman Lo Kin-wa, 29, will be sentenced next Monday over the armed attack, which took place while Sham was having lunch with friends at Via Restaurant on Tak Hing Street in Jordan on August 29 last year.
The District Court previously heard the two defendants were involved in tailing the Civil Human Rights Front convenor and driving his two assailants, who remained at large after fleeing the restaurant with a baseball bat and a 60cm-long butcher’s knife in hand.
Lo later told investigators that “some Hongkonger in Tuen Mun wanted to cripple” Sham and the reward was to be HK$2 million (US$258,000).
