Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she expects police to submit full report to coroner on death of 15-year-old girl, that has triggered violence and conspiracy theories

It is then for court to decide any further steps to take over the girl’s death, Lam says

City’s chief executive decries number of ‘malicious’ allegations, as well as physical attacks, against police officers during protests

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Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, has spoken publicly on the death of a 15-year-old girl, which police have said was not suspicious. Photo: Winson Wong

Published: 1:49pm, 15 Oct 2019Updated: 10:26am, 16 Oct 2019

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has said she expected police to submit a full report to the coroner over the death of a 15-year-old girl, which has triggered conspiracy theories and attacks on the teenager’s school.

But the city’s chief executive also said on Tuesday that police had been subjected to a spate of “malicious and unfounded allegations”, as well as physical attacks, during the anti-government protests engulfing the city.

Responding last week to online rumours the girl and others could have been killed by police officers, acting chief superintendent Kelvin Kong Wing-cheung said there was nothing suspicious about the death of the teenager, who was a student at Youth College in Tseung Kwan O.

All classes at Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), which shares a campus with the college, have been cancelled over the next three days after dozens of masked students smashed glass doors and security cameras at the site on Monday over the school’s handling of surveillance footage of the student.

Dr Leung Hing-pong, an academic director at the design institute in Tseung Kwan O, is confronted with demands to release school footage showing the movements of a girl before her death. Photo: Dickson Lee

Some protesters from the anti-government movement, sparked by the now-withdrawn extradition bill, have demanded the release of the images from the school, saying they did not trust the police account of the incident.

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