CY Rebuffs Judge's Remarks On Avery Ng Case

Former Chief Executive CY Leung has rebuffed a High Court's judge's suggestion that the Department of Justice (DOJ) deliberately kept him out of an assault case involving pro-democracy activist Avery Ng, saying this can't be true because he did in fact testify.

In quashing Ng's assault conviction for throwing a sandwich at the former CE in 2016, judge Joseph Yau questioned why Ng had been charged with assaulting the policeman who was actually struck by the sandwich, rather than Leung who was the intended victim.

Yau said he wondered whether the move was to spare Leung from giving evidence and if that was the case, the DOJ's decision would have been inappropriate.

But in a Facebook post on Thursday, Leung said the judge's suggestion cannot be possible, as he did give evidence at Ng’s trial at a magistrates' court in 2017.

Leung did not mention in his post, however, that he was a witness for Ng's defence and the DOJ had not called him to testify.