A 16-year-old has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service for pressing the emergency engine stop of two buses in Mong Kok during the unrest last December. “The severity of a community service order is equivalent to imprisonment, do not take the sentence lightly,” Law told Mak. Law said several of those buses’ emergency exits were damaged, one of the drivers saw the group hitting the rear of the bus using flashlights. Mak, who was amongst the black-clad group, was spotted by two patrol police officers for pressing the emergency engine stop button of a New World First bus. Defendant counsel suggested Law not to sentence Mak to a probation order, saying that the comments given to the defendant from the reports of the probation order and suitability reports of the community service order are positive.

Source: The Standard September 21, 2020 10:25 UTC