4th September 2026 – (Hong Kong) A High Court trial over alleged incest within a family continued today with prosecutors playing a police video in which the 24-year-old defendant described sexual contact with his younger sister from when she was about six or seven, and said the later revelation that their elder brother had also abused her left her in such distress that she tried to harm herself.
The defendant, identified only as L.H.C.N., faces four counts of incest and three counts of committing an act of gross indecency with a child under 16. The indictment alleges that between 2nd September 2013 and 17th July 2016, at a flat in Hong Kong, he had sexual intercourse with the girl known as X on four occasions when she was aged between seven and 10, knowing she was his sister, and on three occasions within the same period committed serious indecent acts towards her. X is not giving evidence in person.
Police Constable Wong Chun-ting, who took part in the arrest, told the court that under caution the defendant said he had been very young at the time but admitted he had done it and now deeply regretted it. Wong explained that “done it” meant sexual intercourse, and that the defendant recalled they had had sex.
In the recorded interview, the defendant said the first occasion came when he was already 10 and in Primary Six or Form One, while his sister was about six or seven. He asked if they could “try having sex”; she asked what he meant, then, he claimed, agreed, and intercourse followed. He insisted the third, fourth and fifth times were at her request. Asked whether she understood what he meant, he replied that she should have known. He denied ever forcing her into oral sex, intercourse or masturbation and stressed he had not raped her, while saying he did not then grasp how coarse some of the acts were.
He also told officers that around Form Two or Form Three his sister revealed their elder brother had done the same to her. He confronted the older sibling, who admitted it, and the two brothers exchanged confessions, saying they were shocked that each had treated their sister that way. X eventually “cracked under the pressure”, attempted self-harm and suicide and had to be admitted to hospital, which brought the matter into the open. Both brothers, he said, felt deeply sorry. She later disclosed the abuse to a social worker, who informed the parents.
Wong said he cautioned the defendant more than once during the interview because, while officers were examining alleged sexual contact between June and August 2015, the defendant volunteered other potentially chargeable incidents. He denied any threats or inducements. Under cross-examination, defence counsel asked whether an officer had told the defendant’s grandmother to call her grandson home; Wong said he did not know, having been inside a room and unaware of what happened outside.