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Hong Kong war games fan jailed for more than 5 years after he admits possession of unlicensed handgun and ammunition
- Court hears handgun and rounds of ammunition found by police after Wong Chun-yin linked to separate inquiry into alleged plot to kill police officers
- Wong and wife cleared of involvement in murder plan after inquiry, but he was charged with firearms offences
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A 38-year-old Hong Kong war games fan arrested by national security police three years ago was on Monday jailed for more than five years for keeping a pistol and 92 rounds of ammunition in his rural flat without a licence.
Wong Chun-yin, who said he bought the handgun and bullets from a fellow war-gamer for HK$25,000 in mid-2019, weeks before the outbreak of anti-government protests, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition without a permit.
Deputy High Court judge Amanda Woodcock highlighted the risk of the weapon falling into the wrong hands as she passed sentence.
She highlighted a DNA analysis of the pistol, which showed that at least four people had handled it before it was seized by police.
Woodcock set a starting point of eight years imprisonment, but reduced the term to five years and four months because of Wong’s early guilty plea.
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