When a teenager was stabbed to death with a fork … over an alleged stare
In the 1980 incident at Wah Fu Estate, Chan Wai-tak was chatting with a friend when he was fatally attacked by a group of youths
“He said there was an exchange of words and then they were suddenly set upon by the group. The group fled after the attack and he and Chan ran to a nearby shopping centre for help. He said Chan collapsed in the corridor on the fifth floor of the shopping centre. Police have seized a bent barbecue fork believed to have been used in the attack on the two.”
On January 17, 1986, the Post followed up, writing that “a theatre usher who was involved in a fight 5 ½ years ago which resulted in the death of a teenager was yesterday sentenced to 12 months in jail”.
“Chan Kam-kei, 23, pleaded guilty before Mr Justice Barnes to one count of manslaughter and one of wounding with intent. He was sentenced to 12 months for killing Chan Wai-tak, 16, and three months for wounding Mr Li Man-ching, 18, on May 9, 1980. The sentences are to run concurrently. His counsel, Mr Andrew Macrae, submitted in mitigation that Chan came from a hard-working family. He was a man of good character marred with one minor offence of assault over a very trivial matter when he was only 19 […] Chan was now a hardworking and responsible young man and was no longer a member of a triad gang, he said.”