Wednesday, June 22, 2005

RTHK ON INTERNET

Former top footballer jailed for rape





2005-06-22 HKT 16:03





A former goalkeeper for Hong Kong's National Football team has been jailed for five years, after he was convicted of raping his Filipino domestic helper three years ago. Lau Tung-Ping was originally sentenced to six years jail at his trial in 2003. He was awarded a re-trial but was again convicted. In sentencing, Mr Justice Pang Kin-Kee said he'd reduced the minimum 6-year prison term for rape by a year, after taking into account defence pleas for leniency.


DJ Niall says:
Tip of the ice-berg ... castration is too good for those who think that domestic helpers are servants to be abused with impunity.
But I am against cpaital punishment: it wouldn't be right to cut off anyone's nuts or anyone's head. FOr one thing, the justice system is not perfect and innocent men do get convicted. Just ask any random group of prisononers and as many as 100% might be innocent!
Anyway, I am a little consoled by the knowledge that rapists are automatically confined to the lowest levels of the hong kong prison inmate ranking system. Just above or around the same as that of paedophiles, I would think.
So what does that mean in practical terms? It means they will find it much harder to get a well-paying job (e.g. $300 per month as a 'skilled' worker in one of the workshops) and will likely suffer from regular verbal abuse and occasional -- but generally non-life-threatening -- physical threats. Come to think of it, they will be treated more or less as a 'fag' in one of England's 'public' schools would have been in the 19th century ...

Thursday, June 02, 2005


Hung like a ... squirrel?

PFY proves self abuse cures male-pattern baldness | The Register

PFY proves self abuse cures male-pattern baldness | The Register
We may have lost the Empire but our sense of humour still thrives ... note: humoUr not humor, OK?