{
  "id": 739707,
  "title": "Man acquitted of assaulting wife after court finds contradictions in testimony",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/man-acquitted-of-assaulting-wife-after-court-finds-contradictions-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T06:40:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3363880/man-acquitted-assaulting-wife-after-court-finds-contradictions-testimony"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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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        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Man acquitted of assaulting wife after court finds contradictions in testimony",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/man-acquitted-of-assaulting-wife-after-court-finds-contradictions-in-741634",
        "published": "2026-08-13T06:40:14.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}