Hong Kong policeman arrested over rape of girl, 14, while out on bail facing sex assault allegations on two others
City’s police face another blow to reputation, with latest case bringing number of arrests involving officers this year to 30
A policeman suspended and on bail over indecent assault allegations has been arrested again after being accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in the stairwell of a high-rise building following a “heavy drinking session” in Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong nightlife district.
The 32-year-old detective constable was formerly attached to the Narcotics Bureau.
The latest incident will deepen concerns that the force – which for decades has regarded itself as “Asia’s finest” – is facing an integrity crisis, the recent case bringing the total number of arrests this year involving officers to 30.
According to sources, on the night of July 21, the officer went for a drink in Lan Kwai Fong with three women, including the 14-year-old. He had met all of them online.
The group “drank heavily”, according to one source, and the detective constable accompanied the girl to her home on a Sha Tin public housing estate. The officer was suspected to have raped the girl in the staircase outside her family home.
