‘Dragon Slaying Brigade’ leader planned Hong Kong bomb plot despite gun use refusal: lawyer
- Defence lawyer says client Cheung Ming-yu ‘made himself very clear’ he did not want to fire on police, but leader pressed on with plan
A lawyer for an alleged member of the “Dragon Slaying Brigade” behind a 2019 Hong Kong bomb plot has said the group’s leader pressed on with organising the attack despite his client rejecting the use of guns and explosives.
Barrister Thomas Iu Poon-shing said on Wednesday that the evidence provided in cross-examination by group leader Wong Chun-keung suggested he had kept his team in the dark about how the attack would be carried out.
Iu’s client, Cheung Ming-yu, is among six men who have denied involvement in a plot to plant two bombs in Wan Chai on December 8, 2019, to kill police officers.
The prosecution earlier in its closing submission told a panel of nine jurors that the conspiracy was hatched on November 18 that year, when Wong and fellow ringleader Ng Chi-hung met to discuss the roles of their teams.
According to Wong, the pair had agreed that the brigade members would draw police out to the street, with Ng’s team then setting off the bombs.
“Wong made such an agreement with Ng on his own, and that was not consented to by the brigade members. Not all of Wong’s actions represented the brigade,” Iu said.
“Wong had entered into a conspiracy, but that did not equate to the brigade members taking part in it.”