Hong Kong court hears alleged bomb-maker, an ex-pupil at top boys’ school, used its grounds to hide explosives

High Court hears witness say that secluded spot at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, in Wan Chai was used to store explosives and make bombs

Eddie Pang also tells court that he was tasked with picking up bag of explosives stashed in a cubicle at public toilet in Mong Kok

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High Court hears grounds of top boys’ school used to store explosives to be used for 2019 bomb attacks on police. Photo: Sun Yeung

Published: 9:44pm, 4 Jun 2024Updated: 9:46pm, 4 Jun 2024

The leader of a Hong Kong team of frontline protesters that joined forces with the “Dragon Slaying Brigade” to stage a bomb attack on police used the grounds of one of the city’s top boys’ schools to prepare the explosives, a court was told on Tuesday.

Prosecution witness Eddie Pang Kwan-ho said he watched team leader Ng Chi-hung, a former pupil at Wan Chai’s prestigious Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, make one of two planned bombs at a secluded spot in its grounds on the night of December 7, 2019, during the protests that rocked the city that year.

He added Ng also told him the details of the bomb plot for the first time while they smoked cigarettes and talked at the school.

“He was assembling the bomb and mixing a total of 12 to 14 bags of yellow power,” Pang said.

“I was only holding a torch for him.”

He added that each bag weighed about 1kg (2.2lbs) and the result was to be a large bomb, which Ng said would be planted on Hennessy Road in Wan Chai.