Leader of alleged 2019 Hong Kong bomb plot tells court his team not told of potential danger or where explosives would be

The leader of the “Dragon Slaying Brigade”, the organisation alleged to be behind a foiled 2019 bomb plot to target Hong Kong police officers, did not warn his group of the potential danger or tell them where the explosives were to be placed, the High Court was told on Wednesday.

The brigade’s head Wong Chun-keung said he was left in the dark by alleged accomplice Ng Chi-hung about where two bombs would be planted by the morning of December 8, 2019, the day a lawful protest was held.

Wong, who was giving evidence for the prosecution, told a defence lawyer for one of six men charged with conspiracy to plant the two bombs that he thought telling his team to “follow him and listen to his orders” during the protest was enough to maintain their safety.

“Did you tell them the bomb could injure them [when it went off]? … do you think it was fair not to tell them that they could get themselves killed in this?” Thomas Iu, who appeared for defendant Cheung Ming-yu, asked Wong.

Wong told Iu his team was aware that bombs and firearms were to be used and that they only agreed to take part in luring police into a trap on Hennessy Road in Wan Chai.

Wong added that his group had agreed they would not touch firearms or use explosives, but that the squad led by Ng would detonate two bombs and open fire on officers.