By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-14 08:26:32 | Updated at 2024-11-22 14:17:41
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The mastermind of a bomb plot targeting Hong Kong police has been jailed for 23 years and 10 months, while the leader of the “Dragon Slaying Brigade”, the team behind the thwarted 2019 plan, has been handed a sentence of 13½ years in prison.
Madam Justice Judianna Wai-ling Barnes on Thursday at the High Court sentenced seven defendants in connection with the plot to plant two bombs in Wan Chai on December 8, 2019, at the height of the months-long anti-government protests.
The high-profile case involved 14 people, with 10 of them being charged under the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Measures Ordinance for the first time since its enactment in 2002.
Seven of them denied the charges and stood trial from April to August this year, with six acquitted by the jury.
During the trial, the court heard Ng Chi-hung, 28, hatched a plot to use explosives and real guns against police and invited the “Dragon Slaying Brigade”, which was led by Wong Chun-keung, 26, to join the conspiracy.
Under their plan, the brigade would draw police out onto the street, while Ng would detonate a small bomb packed with 2kg of explosives near a petrol station by the Emperor Group Centre.
Predicting that police would then retreat to their headquarters on Arsenal Street, a sniper would ambush officers as Ng set off a larger bomb containing 8kg of explosives and 150 nails that had been planted in the area.
