{
  "id": 739943,
  "title": "Hong Kong court orders retrial of man charged with murdering taxi driver after jury fails to reach majority verdict",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/hong-kong-court-orders-retrial-of-man-charged-with-murdering-taxi-739943",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T05:33:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hong Kong Free Press",
    "slug": "hong-kong-free-press-hongkongfp",
    "url": "https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/13/hong-kong-court-orders-retrial-of-man-charged-with-murdering-taxi-driver-after-jury-fails-to-reach-majority-verdict/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Hong Kong court has ordered a retrial of a man accused of murdering a taxi driver in 2021 after the jury failed to reach a majority verdict. Matthew Choi, 36, had pleaded not guilty to one count of murder. He was arrested on Lamma Island in October 2021 after a night-shift taxi driver was stabbed […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}