Suspended policeman faces 7 years in jail over red paint vandalism, data access

A Hong Kong policeman accused of throwing red paint at the front door of a residential flat and accessing the force’s internal systems without authorisation could face up to seven years in prison after prosecutors sought to transfer his case to the District Court. Leung Lung-kwan, 41, appeared at Eastern Court on Wednesday for the first time after being charged with one count of criminal damage and eight counts of accessing a computer with dishonest intent. Prosecutors alleged that he accessed...