Exclusive | ‘I can’t forgive what he did,’ says Hong Kong policeman injured in Causeway Bay knife attack
- Assailant’s suicide after last year’s July 1 stabbing outside Sogo store sends wrong message to society, victim says
- Injured officer returning to work soon, after spending 19 days in hospital, 200 days on medical leave
Barely able to breathe and bleeding profusely on an ambulance stretcher, Hong Kong police constable Wai-ming* thought he was going to die.
He was near the end of his shift, patrolling a busy street outside the Sogo department store in Causeway Bay last July 1, when a man came up to him and stabbed him in the back.
As Wai-ming, 29, underwent seven hours of emergency surgery, his family was told to prepare for the worst.
He survived, only learning two days later that his assailant, 50-year-old Vitasoy purchasing agent Leung Kin-fai, had committed suicide by immediately stabbing himself in the chest.
Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung declared the incident a “lone wolf-style act of domestic terrorism” and said those who incited hatred in society and beautified acts of violence had blood on their hands.
Lying in his hospital bed, Wai-ming struggled to understand what had pushed his attacker towards such an extreme action, asking himself if Leung had been misled by biased news reports and social media.