New campus security camera clips released showing movements of Hong Kong girl later found dead in sea but critics dismiss footage

Angry students had vandalised facilities at the Hong Kong Design Institute demanding to see ‘unedited’ footage

Clips show teenager in lift on campus and people passing entrance of car park, and are fuller, higher-resolution versions of earlier ones, source says

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A Hong Kong Design Institute employee is surrounded by students demanding the full CCTV footage. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

Published: 7:52pm, 15 Oct 2019Updated: 10:28am, 16 Oct 2019

Clips from campus security cameras showing the whereabouts of a 15-year-old girl whose body was later found in the sea have been released by Hong Kong’s Vocational Training Council a day after angry students vandalised school facilities demanding to see “unedited” footage.

A council spokesman on Tuesday denied it had edited or deleted any clips and said the footage would be kept for future use.

A screen grab of the lift footage shows Chan inside. Photo: Handout

“The school reiterates that there is no need to hide anything,” the spokesman said in a statement. “Except that the appearance of unrelated people in the CCTV [clips] cannot be shown for privacy protection, we have not deleted or altered any surveillance footage.”

All classes at the VTC-run Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) have been cancelled over the next three days after dozens of masked students smashed glass doors and security cameras on its campus on Monday over the school’s handling of footage of the girl, whose body was found in the sea off Tseung Kwan O on September 22. The girl, surnamed Chan, studied at Youth College, which shares a campus with the institute in Tiu Keng Leng.

She was a member of her school’s swimming team and was said to have attended anti-government protests regularly.