Missing Civic Party activist Eric Tsui found hanged; many grieve his death
Many distraught over the death of 26-year-old, who was found five days after he went missing
The 26-year-old vice-chairman of the Civic Party's Kowloon East branch was found hanged in Tai Po yesterday, five days after he went missing.
The party expressed shock and grief at the death of Eric Tsui Kwok-fung. He had joined the party in 2007 and been active in its youth wing, Youth Civics.
Police found his body at about 2pm on a slope near Villa Castell, Tai Po Road, after a search.
Tsui had worked as a teaching assistant at Buddhist Hung Sean Chau Memorial College in Wong Tai Sin.
Kowloon West police superintendent Tan Wing-yuen said the search began after a resident told police early yesterday that he thought he saw a man fitting Tsui's description in Deerhill Bay, next to Villa Castell, on Tuesday - the day Tsui went missing after leaving his Sham Shui Po home.
Police said they found no suicide note but that Tsui's identity and Octopus cards were on his person when they discovered him.
Upon being informed, grieving relatives and party members including lawmaker Claudia Mo Man-ching rushed to the scene.
