In 2007, a Hong Kong civil servant was nearly kidnapped
Dr Ronald Leung Ding-bong, a former Urban Council president, was heading to his office in Causeway Bay when he foiled his assailants
“It was a typical day for Ronald Leung Ding-bong, the former Urban Council president, as he rode a lift to his Causeway Bay office last November,” reported the South China Morning Post on September 12, 2008. “But when the lift’s doors opened one floor below his destination, Dr Leung’s fellow passenger shoved him into the hallway.
“Two other men emerged from a stairwell and Dr Leung knew something was seriously wrong. They tried to force Dr Leung into a wooden box, but he fought his attackers and, in desperation, bit off one of their fingertips.
“‘He realised he was in great danger and resisted as hard as he could,’ senior counsel Arthur Luk Yee-shun said yesterday. And, as the Post would later report, a passer-by would force the potential kidnappers to flee mid-attack.
“Those assailants have never been identified. But two other men – Brandi Chiang Sai-wah, 48, and Jimmy Wong Hon-wai, 32 – were key players in the botched kidnapping on November 6, Mr Luk said during his opening address at the pair’s conspiracy trial.
“Chiang – the younger brother of former Kowloon City district councillor Chiang Sai-cheong – was the organiser who tracked down a box to transport Dr Leung, the court heard. He also allegedly procured an oxygen cylinder for the kidnappers’ planned captive.
“Wong, a truck driver, was paid HK$1,000 to wait for his fellow kidnappers and transport the box to the group’s hideout, a rented pig farm in Yuen Long, the prosecutor said. Both men have pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit forcible detention.
“Meanwhile, jurors were shown the foam-lined wooden box while victim Dr Leung, commonly known as ‘Dr Toilet’ because of his past campaigns for clean public facilities, briefly testified, confirming that he was the man caught on surveillance cameras riding the lift with the still-unidentified person.”
