Hong Kong protests: 3 jailed for up to 5½ years over charges stemming from unrest in central Kowloon that ended in rail station chaos
- Court convicts two of rioting and assaulting railway passengers at Prince Edward MTR station on August 31, 2019
- Third protester jailed for eight months for joining illegal gathering in Mong Kok in lead-up to confrontations
Former courier Lin Chun-hung, 22, was handed the heaviest sentence of 5½ years after he was found to have also vandalised the nearby Mong Kok MTR station before the mayhem at Prince Edward. Sports coach Cheuk Ka-ho, 27, was jailed for four years and 10 months.
The third defendant, 24-year-old associate degree holder Kan Tsz-pan, was jailed for eight months for joining an illegal gathering in Mong Kok in the lead-up to the confrontations underground.
Deputy District Judge Ivy Chui Yee-mei told West Kowloon Court that radical protesters had thrown residents into disarray as they inflicted serious damage to the transport system and caused immense nuisance to the public.
She said Lin and Cheuk had played an active role in the riots and exacerbated an already volatile situation.
“They have completely flouted law and order, bullying the weak and confusing what is right and wrong. They were presumptuous and unreasonable,” Chui said.