Husband takes comatose wife through checkpoint without raising alarm
A wheelchair-bound woman whose husband wheeled her unconscious through the Lo Wu border checkpoint after a 28-hour train journey from Xian in Shaanxi province , was declared dead at her Sheung Shui home yesterday.
The husband, Sheung Hok-hoi, 67, took his unconscious wife, Li Chun-yee, 68, home to Tin Ping Estate in Sheung Shui and called police at 8.09am. She was declared dead by paramedics at the scene, police said.
It is not known if Mrs Li was dead when they arrived at the border after their train journey from Xian, where they had been visiting Mr Sheung's son.
According to her husband, Mrs Li, who suffered from epilepsy and was wheelchair-bound after suffering a stroke, had fallen into a coma in Xian on Sunday, November 4. A doctor had administered an injection to her.
Before she lapsed into unconsciousness she had expressed a wish to return to Hong Kong to see her intellectually handicapped son.
Mr Sheung said he had travelled with Mrs Li, who was unconscious in her wheelchair and wearing a surgical mask, on the 28-hour train journey from Xian and had arrived in Shenzhen about 5am on Wednesday.
