A woman was convicted on Thursday of assaulting a police officer with her breast during an anti-parallel-trading protest on 1 March 2015.
Tuen Mun deputy magistrate Michael Chan found Ng Lai-ying, 30, guilty of using her chest to assault the right arm of a police officer.
The defendant described that, during the protest, the police officer stretched his arm to reach the strap of the bag on her shoulder, and his hand landed on the upper part of her left breast.
She cried “police indecent assault” immediately, she told the court.
Ng was pushed to the ground during the chaos, where she was injured. She was seen to have blood over her face during the arrest.
Police officers serving as witnesses previously testified that Ng fell down of her own accord and rubbed the blood on her face, according to Apple Daily.
Chan rejected Ng’s claims and accused her for falsifying the story. Instead she was found guilty of assaulting the police officer with her breast, the SCMP reports.
“You used your female identity to trump up the allegation that the officer had molested you. This is a malicious act,” Chan said, adding that it had caused great harm to the officer’s reputation.
“Those [civil servants] who are attacked because of their jobs should be protected,” he added.
The extent of the police officer’s physical injury, however, was never mentioned.
Meanwhile, an elderly couple charged with molesting a female bystander during a sit-in protest in Mong Kok in October last year received a lenient sentence and walked free from court earlier this week. The assailants assaulted the victim and molested her breast in front of a large crowd after the victim attempted to break up an argument at last year’s Occupy protests. A video of the incident went viral on social media.
Yet the magistrate said the sentence was based on what she called “a humanitarian ground” as both the assailants have a history of cancer.
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