Man acquitted of assaulting wife after court finds contradictions in testimony
A Hong Kong magistrate has acquitted a former auxiliary police officer of assaulting his wife at their home last year, citing inconsistencies in her testimony about his alleged attack after he refused to care for their baby. Magistrate Claudia Ng Cheuk-hwa on Thursday found Adnan Mohammad not guilty of one count of common assault. Mohammad’s wife, Shazia Parveen, told the court that he had hit…
A Hong Kong magistrate has acquitted a former auxiliary police officer, Adnan Mohammad, of assaulting his wife, Shazia Parveen, after finding contradictions in her testimony. Parveen had initially claimed Mohammad had hit her and pushed her onto a sofa during an argument over childcare, but later admitted that Mohammad’s brother had been sleeping in the flat at the time.
The magistrate, Claudia Ng Cheuk-hwa, found Parveen's inconsistent statements and lack of transparency concerning the earlier assaults, which she had not reported to her social worker or the doctor who examined their son, to be inconsistent with the truth. Consequently, Mohammad was acquitted of the charge of common assault. The court ordered the Department of Justice to cover Mohammad's legal costs.
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