HKU virologist spared conviction for assaulting man and damaging his phone

A University of Hong Kong (HKU) virologist has been spared a criminal conviction for assaulting a man and damaging his mobile phone at a railway station last year. Eastern Court on Friday placed Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran on a two-year bind-over order and instructed him to pay HK$800 (US$102) in damages, after he admitted attacking a stranger at Hong Kong MTR station on August 17, 2025. The 48-year-old associate professor, who heads the university’s pathogen evolution lab, could be fined HK$2,...

By Brian Wong