A cleaver was thrown from a flat of a residential building on Rua Sul do Patane (沙梨頭南街) in Fai Chi Kei last Monday, in response to which the Public Security Police (PSP) on Wednesday identified the suspect as a local man in his forties, underlining that “no one or object had been hit in the incident”.
The PSP statement was released on Wednesday afternoon after a resident of the building alleged to a Hong Kong television programme “Scoop” that the Public Security Police had repeatedly refused to investigate a number of incidents of objects being thrown from heights in the neighbourhood on the grounds that “the residents there were not injured”.
The programme cited the resident living in the Fai Chi Kei district as pointing out that there had been a number of incidents of objects being thrown from heights in the area, including fruit and scissors, and even a cleaver on a recent occasion, threatening the safety of passers-by.
In response to the resident’s allegations, the Public Security Police clarified in the statement that upon receiving a report of an incident of an object being thrown from a height on Rua Sul do Patane at 1 p.m. last Monday, PSP officers immediately went to the location of the incident to take follow-up action. The statement added that after it was suspected that a cleaver had fallen from a flat of the building onto the pavement earlier, PSP officers immediately conducted their investigation procedures at the site, including on-site evidence collection.
A separate PSP statement on Wednesday night noted that “after days of investigation, PSP officers successfully identified the residential flat involved in the incident and intercepted the local man in his forties suspected of throwing the cleaver out of his flat’s window at about 1 p.m. on December 23 due to emotional problems”.
The Public Security Police reminded the public that throwing objects from a height may cause serious injuries to other people and the consequences are unimaginable, and the perpetrators shall bear the corresponding criminal liabilities, stating that: “Members of the public are advised not to take the law into their own hands”.
