Hong Kong media: American bank lawyer convicted of assaulting Hong Kong police, sentenced to 4 months and 2 weeks in prison
[Global Network Comprehensive Report reporter Zhao Youping] Hong Kong’s "Sing Tao.com" reported that the American bank lawyer who assaulted the police at the Causeway Bay MTR station in December of the previous year was convicted of assaulting the police. Today (6th) he was sentenced to 4 months and 2 weeks in prison. .
On December 7th of the previous year, during the raging violence, when an off-duty police officer was passing MTR Causeway Bay Station, he was caught by an American bank lawyer Philip ( Samuel Phillip Bickett) stopped. The lawyer pulled the off-duty police officer down and pressed his chest with his knees.
He was charged with one charge of assaulting a policeman and one charge of ordinary assault, which is an alternate charge. The case was tried in the Eastern Magistracy of Hong Kong earlier. The judge denounced his claim that his behavior was "legal self-defense" as absurd and ruled him on one charge. The crime of assaulting the police was convicted.
According to the report, the case was pronounced at the Eastern District Court of Hong Kong today. Judge Lin Xiwei said that after the defendant pushed down the police officer, he continued to beat his right hand, left chest and other parts, and even stepped on his belly, resulting in multiple injuries to the police officer.
Lin Xiwei directly denounced the defendant for "behavioral violence", which constitutes a serious threat to public order. The court will not tolerate it. Moreover, the crime occurred in a busy subway station. The defendant's behavior will increase the potential risk of violence or cause larger-scale riots.
Lin Xiwei also stated that the law has the responsibility to protect police officers who are performing their duties from harm, otherwise the law and public order will be endangered, and the court must impose punitive and deterrent penalties, so the defendant was eventually sentenced to 4 months in prison 2 week.
The report revealed that Philip settled in Hong Kong in 2013 and has been the director of the investment bank's anti-corruption compliance department since 2019, with a monthly income of 140,000 Hong Kong dollars. He resigned in April this year because of the case.