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Brian Wong

A 29-year-old marketing manager has been hit with 13 charges, including manslaughter, for allegedly drugging six men to either rape them or steal their belongings and killing one of them at a Hong Kong hotel last year.
Prosecutors on Thursday levelled a charge of manslaughter and 12 other counts against Au Chi-ken and applied for his case to be moved to the Court of First Instance for trial before a jury.
The defendant has been remanded in custody since he first appeared in the dock in March 2023, and will remain behind bars until the case is heard again at Eastern Court next month.
A revised indictment accused Au of drugging six men, including the one who died, to either rape them or steal their belongings.
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He allegedly killed the deceased, identified in court only as C, at the Best Western Plus Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui on March 14 last year.
Au was said to have given the man a mix of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), both date rape drugs, as well as tadalafil, an anti-impotence substance. He is also alleged to have stolen a mobile phone from him.
The accused was said to have targeted the remaining five at three other locations on the Kowloon peninsula between March 7 and 15 last year.
He is alleged to have raped two of the five men while they were unconscious.
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Au is also alleged to have stolen four mobile phones, a watch, a ring, a pair of earphones, 4,000 yuan (US$557) and HK$1,200 (US$154) from three of them during the encounters.
Au is charged with manslaughter, use of a noxious substance with intent to injure, two counts of administering drugs to obtain or facilitate an unlawful sexual act, two of buggery without consent, three of using a substance with intent to commit an indictable offence and four of theft.
The defendant did not ask for bail during the hearing before Magistrate Peter Yu Chun-cheung.


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Hong Kong man, 29, faces 13 charges including manslaughter for alleged killing in hotel, rape and theft across Kowloon

The defendant’s case will be heard again at Eastern Court next month. Photo: Nora Tam 

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Defendant allegedly killed man, identified in court only as C, in Tsim Sha Tsui hotel
Accused reportedly targeted five other men at three other locations on Kowloon peninsula between March 7 and 15


Defendant allegedly killed man, identified in court only as C, in Tsim Sha Tsui hotel.


Crime in Hong Kong

Sexual harassment and assault