Hong Kong merchant jailed for 4 months over drunken attack on police officers that ended with defendant being shot 3 times
- Oliver Dairo Arimas pleads guilty at Eastern Court to two counts of assaulting an officer after barbecue on outlying island of Peng Chau on January 24
- Officers responding to noise complaint attacked by Arimas when he opened door and senior constable shot him three times
A Hong Kong merchant has been jailed for four months after he assaulted two policemen in a drunken attack early this year that ended with one of the officers shooting him three times.
Oliver Dairo Arimas, 43, pleaded guilty at Eastern Court on Tuesday to two counts of assaulting a police officer after a barbecue on the outlying island of Peng Chau on January 24, the third day of Lunar New Year.
A duty lawyer representing Arimas said the defendant was under the influence of alcohol when he attacked the officers.
Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui Yee-mei said the only mitigating factor was the defendant’s timely guilty plea. She accepted the case was not the most serious of its kind as he did not use a weapon.
Arimas’ co-defendant, 33-year-old driver Cione Chris Alvarez Sacdalan, was released on a bind-over order on charges of assaulting and wilfully obstructing a police officer on the same day.