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Written by: Guo Haotian
2021-01-18 18:03
Last update date: 2021-01-18 18:04
During the "Three Strikes" in Hong Kong in November the previous year, someone threw bamboo sticks at the Tai Po section of the East Rail Line. Three men and women were accused of being involved in the incident. They were convicted of endangering the safety of others. The case is in the Fanling Court today (18th) Sentenced, Magistrate Huang Guohui said that the case was extremely serious. Many people threw 40 to 50 bamboo branches with a length of 1 meter onto the track, which would jeopardize the safety of passengers and also affect the operation of the railway. The court must impose deterrent penalties, so two sentences were imposed. An adult defendant went to prison for 10 months, and a minor female defendant went to a rehabilitation center.
Three convicted defendants: 17-year-old female student surnamed Wang; He Songxuan (24 years old, insurance practitioner); and Guo Lihao (28 years old, designer).
The charge is that they placed or threw bamboo sticks on the MTR East Rail Line on a flyover of the Yuan Chau section of Tai Po Highway on November 11, 2019.
The defense lawyer pleaded that Wang, who was the youngest in the case, originally wanted to study in Japan, but was unable to leave the country and is now studying at HKBU. The report indicated that she was suitable to be sentenced to a rehabilitation center and believed that this would help strengthen her awareness of law-abiding He, who is engaged in insurance industry, has excellent academic performance in essays, excellent mathematics, and graduated from the University of Science and Technology; Guo grew up in a well-off family and gets along well with his family.
After considering the circumstances of the case and the pleadings of the defendants, the magistrate believed that the two adult defendants should be imprisoned for 11 months as the starting point for sentencing. Considering that they had no background in the past, their sentences would be reduced by one month as appropriate, and each of them should be imprisoned 10 In August, the judge also adopted the report’s recommendations and sentenced the 17-year-old Wang to the rehabilitation center
Case Number: FLCC 5000/2019
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