{"id":28675,"date":"2015-03-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/03\/20150318_220934.shtml"},"modified":"2015-03-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T04:00:00","slug":"officers-death-classified-as-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/03\/18\/officers-death-classified-as-manslaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer\u2019s death classified as manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Crime_02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police today reclassified a March 15 wounding case involving hawker control officer Wu Kwong-sum as manslaughter, after the officer died.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report at about 4.45pm on Sunday that the 58-year-old officer was found collapsed outside 25 Des Voeux Road Central.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was sent to Queen Mary Hospital where he died today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigations revealed that a South Asian male had pushed him to the ground before he collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 36-year-old South Asian male was arrested in Central yesterday and charged with manslaughter in connection with the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He will appear before Eastern Magistrates' Courts tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Crime_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Police today reclassified a March 15 wounding case involving hawker control officer Wu Kwong-sum as manslaughter, after the officer died.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report at about 4.45pm on Sunday that the 58-year-old officer was found collapsed outside 25 Des Voeux Road Central.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was sent to Queen Mary Hospital where he died today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigations revealed that a South Asian male had pushed him to the ground before he collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 36-year-old South Asian male was arrested in Central yesterday and charged with manslaughter in connection with the case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He will appear before Eastern Magistrates' Courts tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28676,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28675\/revisions\/28676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}