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Written by: Guo Haotian
2020-11-23 20:31
Last update date: 2020-11-23 20:31
When HKUST President Shi Wei was participating in a student forum in November last year, there was an attack. A mainland student was assaulted by multiple people. Afterwards, an engineering student in the school was arrested. The case was tried in the Eastern District Court. The victim did not give evidence. The confession and scene footage from the magistrate Feng, who believed that the defendant was one of the assailants, today (23rd) convicted him of assault and sentenced the defendant to 9 months and two weeks in jail. He also reprimanded the defendant for blatantly attacking unknown persons. The defendant was humiliated to a certain extent, and the court could not tolerate lawless bullying and refused to allow the defendant to be released on bail pending appeal.
The victim did not recognize the assailant and did not testify in court
Defendant Chen Kaiwen, 21, was charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm to others. He alleged that he illegally and maliciously harmed Zheng Candi, a man in the lobby of the Jockey Club of the University of Science and Technology on November 6 last year.
The victim returned to the Mainland after the incident, and only returned to Hong Kong to report to the police in December last year. Since he could not identify anyone who attacked him, the prosecution did not call him to give evidence in court. He only relied on the time of the incident and related to the case. And the written confession of the victim.
A forum was held on the day of the incident
The victim's confession revealed that he came to HKUST from the Mainland in September 2017 to study a doctoral program in the Department of Mathematics.
On the day of the incident, the President of the University of Science and Technology held a public forum on campus. When the victim was leaving along the middle passage, he was surrounded and attacked by people present. He was hit in the head and eyes and was escorted away by security. After receiving preliminary treatment in the security office Later, a professor drove directly back to Shenzhen.
The official found the defendant to be one of the assailants based on the film
The magistrate stated that he reviewed the relevant footage and pointed out that the mobile phones, sports shoes and hand straps worn by the defendant and the assailant were very similar. The defendant lived in the same dormitory and believed that the defendant was the assailant.
It also pointed out that the assailants at the time were all pursuing and beating the victim, so it was ruled that the defendant was deliberately hurting the victim, and the defendant was found guilty.
Advise the defendant to eliminate prejudice and abide by the law
The defense revealed that when he pleaded, the defendant was born in the Mainland and came to Hong Kong with his father when he was young. He was in the fourth year of the Engineering Department of the University of Science and Technology. He was originally scheduled to graduate next year.
However, when the magistrate sent the sentence, he said that he believed that 3,000 yuan could not compensate the victim for the injury, and that the defendant was originally a pillar of society in the future, but now it is regrettable that he has become a prisoner. Hong Kong is our home, we must abide by the law and eliminate prejudices.
Case Number: ESCC 395/2020
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