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Hong Kong woman gets 10 years in jail for luring victims into gang’s extortion plot

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A Hong Kong woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for assisting in robbing three people as a teenager by luring them to a deserted location before her fellow gang members attacked them and took nude photos for extortion. The High Court sentenced 23-year-old Hau Yan-ki on Tuesday after a jury rejected her assertion that she had mistakenly believed she was just helping her friends to collect debts from the victims. She was among six people – two women and four men – arrested in connection...

A Hong Kong police officer has been sentenced to nearly two years in jail for filming upskirt footage of a woman and attempting to grab a colleague’s handgun to kill himself after his arrest last year. A deputy district judge handed down the sentence at West Kowloon Court on Monday after Constable Ko Chun-chung, 40, admitted the thrill of breaking the law drove him to commit the offence against the woman on January 15, 2025. Ko, a married father of two with 15 years of service, had been under...

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