Hong Kong man suspected of pouring unknown liquid on teenager sent to psychiatric facility pending trial
- Li Kwok-ding, 56, was arrested on Friday evening right after allegedly splashing a 17-year-old girl with warm liquid in Causeway Bay
- Suspect, held in Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre, might have publicly shamed multiple female pedestrians, court hears
A Hong Kong construction worker suspected of pouring an unknown liquid onto the buttocks of a 17-year-old girl has been remanded in a psychiatric facility pending a trial for allegedly outraging public decency.
West Kowloon Court on Monday heard that Li Kwok-ding, 56, might have publicly shamed multiple female pedestrians, who complained that their backsides had been splashed with a warm liquid over the past month.
According to a charge sheet available for press inspection, Li, a resident of Peng Chau outlying island, committed an act “of a lewd, obscene and disgusting nature which outraged public decency” by splashing the teenager with an unknown liquid on Causeway Bay’s Great George Street on Friday evening.
The suspect was arrested on the spot and detained over the weekend for questioning.
Prosecutors asked for a two-week adjournment for government psychiatrists to determine whether Li was fit to enter a plea to the charge and if a hospital order was necessary.
Investigations into the defendant’s role in other similar incidents were ongoing, they added.
Principal Magistrate Don So Man-lung dismissed Li’s bail application and scheduled the next hearing for March 11. The accused will be held at Tuen Mun’s Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre during the adjournment.