{
  "id": 7969975,
  "title": "Hong Kong police officer left paralysed in 2005 knife attack dies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/hong-kong-police-officer-left-paralysed-in-2005-knife-attack-dies",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-17T06:56:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3367837/hong-kong-police-officer-left-paralysed-2005-knife-attack-dies"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Jacky Chu Chun-kwok, a former Hong Kong police constable, has passed away at the age of fifty after a long battle with paralysis resulting from a knife attack in 2005. The attack occurred during a routine stop-and-search operation when Chu, then 30 years old, confronted an armed man outside the Po On Road Municipal Services Building in Cheung Sha Wan. The assailant, Liu Chi-yung, stabbed Chu in the neck with a six-inch knife as part of a robbery attempt. Despite sustaining severe injuries, Chu pursued the attacker, but ultimately collapsed from blood loss and was left completely paralysed in a vegetative state. Liu, then 23, was apprehended later that day and sentenced to 10 years in prison for assault and possession of an offensive weapon, serving more than five years before being released on parole in 2011. Chu was honored with the Medal for Bravery (Gold) for his courageous actions. His family and colleagues have requested a funeral with full police honors, reflecting the esteem in which he was held within the police force.",
  "summary": "A former police constable who was left paralysed and bedridden for 21 years after a knife attack during a stop-and-search has died, the South China Morning Post has learned. A source said Jacky Chu Chun-kwok died on Wednesday. He was in his fifties. Frankie Leung Chun-kit, chairman of the Junior Police Officers’ Association, said on Thursday that the force’s management supported burying Chu in…",
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