4 months’ jail for repeat sex offender, 65, who groped Form 3 student on bus

A 65-year-old repeat sex offender, William Wu Yiu-shing, has been sentenced to four months in prison for groping a 17-year-old Form Three student on a Hong Kong bus. The incident, which was captured on video and widely shared online, occurred on June 5 when Wu, a former household hardware salesman, assaulted the girl as the KMB double-decker bus stopped at the intersection of Mong Kok Road and Sai Yeung Choi Street South.

Despite verbal warnings from onlookers, Wu continued the assault as the bus drove away. The girl reported the incident to the police, who arrested Wu at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge checkpoint later that day. Wu pleaded guilty to the offense and admitted to committing previous indecent assaults. He is expected to be released in about a month, as indecent assault is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, but capped at two years when heard by a magistrate.

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