Dad throttled wife, child in rage over trivial quarrels, Hong Kong court hears

A senior assistant at Hong Kong’s Immigration Department has admitted to throttling his wife and five-year-old son multiple times in fits of rage over trivial quarrels. Kowloon City Court on Monday heard the guilty pleas from the 49-year-old defendant who assaulted his 39-year-old wife on three occasions between 2021 and 2024 at their home in Kwun Tong. He also attacked his son on three separate occasions between 2023 and 2025, when the boy was five years old at the time of the first...

By Fiona Chow