Police are on the hunt for a man who caused a stir at the High Court this morning by wielding a kitchen knife and yelling out abruptly — and rather cryptically — during a hearing.
Speaking to journalists outside the court, Chief Inspector Lo Shui-lin from Central district said they received a call at 10:04am this morning that a man in his 50s had taken an eight inch-long, five and a half inch-wide blade out of his backpack in one of the courtrooms.
Lo said the man was about 5′ 4″, has short hair, and speaks Mandarin. He was wearing a light-colored striped polo shirt, sandals, and carrying a brown backpack.
According to Apple Daily, the man entered courtroom number 13 on the seventh floor of the building just before 10am. After three to five minutes, he took out a kitchen knife and yelled in Mandarin “Lawless! Did you think I wouldn’t be able to find you?”
The judge did not answer the man, instead adjourning proceedings immediately.
Inexplicably, the knife-wielding man — who the paper reported had no connection to the case being heard — was able to flee the courtroom, then vanish, without being subdued by security.
Apple Daily reported that officers searched every floor of the building, including the fifth floor, where former chief executive Donald Tsang was facing a corruption trial, to no avail. Proceedings for the Tsang trial and others were uninterrupted.
Local TV station TVB reported that no one was injured.
Police are now looking through CCTV footage and calling on anyone to come forward with any information.
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