Man acquitted of assaulting wife after court finds contradictions in testimony

A Hong Kong magistrate has acquitted a former auxiliary police officer of assaulting his wife at their home last year, citing inconsistencies in her testimony about his alleged attack after he refused to care for their baby. Magistrate Claudia Ng Cheuk-hwa on Thursday found Adnan Mohammad not guilty of one count of common assault. Mohammad’s wife, Shazia Parveen, told the court that he had hit her arms and pushed her onto a sofa during an argument over childcare at their Wong Tai Sin flat on...

By Fiona Chow