Attack in Hong Kong Sham Shui Po 7-Eleven store cannot be compared with Yau Ma Tei assault, court hears
Lawyer makes claim on behalf of his client in seeking a lenient sentence
A defence lawyer told a court on Wednesday that the assault by his client, who cut a convenience store salesman in the abdomen in a dispute over chilli sauce, was nothing like the shocking stabbing attack that took place on Tuesday night.
The lawyer made the reference in the District Court in mitigation for his client, Ng Wan-fai, who admitted cutting employee Huang Junlin outside a 7-Eleven convenience store in Sham Shui Po last year.
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“It was heinous,” defence lawyer Gabriel Leung said, referring to the stabbing on Tuesday at another 7-Eleven store in Yau Ma Tei which left one man critically injured.
The man, 38, the proprietor of the Yau Ma Tei store, was stabbed in the chest. Huang suffered an abrasion to his belly after Ng cut him with a fruit knife following a dispute over chilli sauce.
“Of similar cases, this falls into the lighter end of the scale,” Leung said of his client’s case.
Ng, 46, pleaded guilty to one count of wounding with intent, one of possessing an offensive weapon and a further count of possessing dangerous drugs.
Prosecutor Ivan Shiu Kwan-tai said the defendant got into an argument with the victim, who tried to stop him from opening a package of sauce which had not been paid for. At the time, Ng was with a woman in the 7-Eleven store on Pei Ho Street.