OUT OF CONTROL

February 9: A 14-year-old schoolgirl was arrested for punching her teacher after a dispute over her uniform at the Liu Po Shan Memorial College secondary school in Tsuen Wan.

February 4: A 13-year-old girl was stripped, punched, burned with a cigarette and indecently assaulted by four boys and five girls in On Ning Garden, Tseung Kwan O, after failing to return a CD to a friend.

January 30: Six teenagers were jailed for life for the 'horrific, brutal and vicious' torture-killing of a 15-year-old boy in Sau Mau Ping.

December 15: Two jobless teenagers admit in court they tried to torch the car of horse-trainer Patrick Biancone in the car park of the Jockey Club's headquarters in Sha Tin in March.

December 10: Lee Yin-wai, 18, is jailed for life for strangling his 17-year-old former girlfriend after she ditched him.