Mainland China university student admits he tried to kill 4 women in Hong Kong in the hope of getting death sentence
- Liu Yueteng, 26, had attacked four women in Sham Shui Po in 2019, hoping to kill them so he could go back to mainland China and get the death penalty
- He turned himself in to mainland authorities, but was told he would not be arrested for an offence committed across the border, so he returned to seek jail time
A university student who was studying in mainland China has admitted that he tried to kill four women in Hong Kong more than two years ago in the hope of getting a death sentence after multiple failed suicide attempts.
Liu Yueteng pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted murder in the High Court on Wednesday in relation to the random knife attack at Garden Hill in Sham Shui Po on October 11, 2019.
Asked by a court interpreter if he would admit the allegations against him, the 26-year-old lowered his head and responded softly in Mandarin: “I admit.”
Liu was a fourth year student at a mainland tertiary institution when he entered Hong Kong in 2019 with a two-way permit on October 1 – a day marked by official celebrations of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and widespread unrest in the city sparked by a now-withdrawn extradition bill.
The then 24-year-old checked in at a youth hostel beneath a hill named after the Garden Company, a local bakery whose former headquarters were situated nearby.
The student carried out the attack 10 days later, targeting four women who were exercising on the hillside that morning.