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Written by: Feng Jiaqi
2020-01-20 19:21
Last updated: 2020-01-20 19:21The Hong Kong Gun Club located on the Tsuen Kam Highway involved scattering of orange flying target fragments and rubber plugs after firing activities last year, and flowed down the hillsides and Shing Mun Aqueduct. Some of the rubber plugs drifted to the Shing Mun Reservoir with the water. The Hong Kong Gun Association has denied a count of placing a subpoena in a water facility. The case opened today (20th) at the West Kowloon Magistracy. The WSD inspector confessed that they had heard gunfire many times when they searched the diversion channel and saw debris falling from the air at their feet, but the defence questioned the statement during cross-examination, saying that the inspector only said in the mouth that " "Top down" today has become "falling from the sky." The case will be reviewed next Friday (31st).
Luo Qihua (right), the gun representative, denied the subpoena. (Photo by Feng Jiaqi)
The defendant, the Hong Kong Gun Association, was charged with one count of placing a substance in a water facility by the Water Supplies Department. The defendant allowed to place a solid on the slope near Tsuen Wan Shing Mun Channel (6SE-B / CR184-199) on or before March 18, 2019, and placed it in such a manner and place that the solid fell, rushed or brought into the water supply facility Part of the water is in breach of 30 (1) and 30 (4) of the Waterworks Ordinance. Luo Qihua, a director of the Hong Kong Gun Association and a member of the Housing Society, has denied charges on behalf of the Hong Kong Gun Association.
Diversion channel see shooting residue
The prosecution summoned Liang Zicong, an assistant water inspector of the Water Supplies Department, as a testimony. He stated that on March 20 last year, he went to the Shing Mun Reservoir to search for evidence. Orange flying target debris. After taking the relevant residues, the staff took photos and records at the scene.
The defence challenges the off-site shooting of photos of the exhibit
Liang claimed to take a photo on March 20, but the photo shows the date is March 22. The defense questioned that the photos of the exhibits were not taken on-site, and said, "If the photos were not taken on that day, the evidence is unknown." Liang responded. He said he had forgotten when the shooting was taken, but the evidence in the photo was found on the same day. On July 19, Liang and colleagues entered the investigation site of the Tsuen Kam Highway. They only seized flying target fragments as evidence. The defense questioned why the marbles and bullets were not seized. Liang responded that his supervisor instructed to seize the flying target fragments.
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Refers to the earlier confession that only the fragments fell from the ground and fell to the ground
He Qingjia, Water Inspector of the Supply and Maintenance Section, stated that he had gone to the scene to retrieve the residue in July last year. He heard gunshots on the side of the water channel many times, and some debris fell to his feet, thinking that the debris had fallen from the air. The defense questioned why the confession at that time meant that the fragments fell from the top "from top to bottom", but today it refers to "falling from the sky" in court, arguing that the confession was inconsistent.
The case was remanded until the 31st, and expert witnesses were called to testify.
Case number: WKS15329 / 2019
Water Supplies Department Court