Man jailed for 20 months for stabbing brother in face with scissors

Screengrabs via Apple Daily video.
Screengrabs via Apple Daily video.

A judge has sentenced a man to 20 months behind bars for stabbing his older brother in the face with a pair of scissors.

Wong Fu-kit, 21, pleaded guilty to one count of wounding with intent in January.

Last year he was caught on camera attacking his 32-year-old brother Wong Ying-keung at the Long Ping Estate in Yuen Long in front of horrified passersby.

The fight broke out after the defendant heard that his older brother had drunkenly attacked the defendant’s girlfriend by pulling her hair and stealing her phone. The elder Wong also told the defendant to dump his girlfriend because their Chinese zodiac signs were incompatible.

Mitigating statements from the defense attorney said that Wong was frustrated that he couldn’t protect his mother and girlfriend from his older brother, who the court heard had a history of taking drugs and violence.

But Judge Douglas Yau Tak-hong said that this frustration was not an excuse for the crime Wong committed, on.cc reports, adding that with Hong Kong’s cramped living spaces, many people many people find themselves dealing with familial frustrations — but nonetheless manage not to stab their siblings in the face.

Yau also said that he needed to hand down a deterrent sentence to convey the message to the public that violence is not the right way to solve family disputes.

The judge reduced Wong’s initial sentence from 39 months to 20 months after taking into account the defendant’s age, early guilty plea, and a psychological report on the defendant that found his chances of re-offending were very low.

Yau also acknowledged mitigating statements from Wong’s defense attorney that the defendant and his older brother were now at peace with each other.



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