Man dies in hospital after slashing ex with paper cutter and jumping from 16th floor

[Scorpion]

Man dies in hospital after slashing ex-girlfriend with paper cutter and jumping from 16th floor of Hong Kong housing estate

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 06 October, 2015, 1:33pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 06 October, 2015, 11:31pm

Clifford Lo
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The incident happened in Shek Lei Estate in Kwai Chung.

A 22-year-old man who allegedly slashed his former girlfriend with a paper cutter before leaping from the 16th-floor corridor of a public housing block in Kwai Chung on Tuesday morning died in hospital at 6.30pm.

Chu Sai-to survived the initial fall and was in a conscious state when paramedics arrived but later succumbed to his wounds in hospital, police said.

His ex-lover, 19-year-old Cheung Mei-lok, sustained multiple cut wounds to her neck, face and body but her condition was downgraded from critical to serious as the day progressed.

At noon, the pair were both said to be in critical condition in Princess Margaret Hospital, according to a government spokeswoman.

Officers arrested the man on suspicion of wounding. Police said the man had not been charged and investigations were continuing.

The attack happened when the man had a dispute with her at the ground-floor lift lobby of Shek Ning House in Shek Lei Estate shortly before 7.30am. She lives with her family in the building.

“During the dispute, the man drew a cutter and then grabbed the woman, forcing her into a lift,” a police spokesman said.

A security guard saw the incident and, thinking it was a robbery, made a 999 emergency call.

According to police, the pair left the lift when it stopped on the 16th floor.

“Initial investigations showed the man injured her before he jumped down from a public corridor,” the spokesman said.

The pair were conscious as they were taken to an ambulance, he said.

Officers cordoned off the area and seized a paper cutter at the 16th-floor lift lobby.

Police are treating the case as “wounding” and “person fell from height”.

Police figures show there were 794 reports of wounding in the first eight months of this year, a 5.5 per cent drop from 840 in the same period last year.