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| The rape trial is on its 3rd day at the High Court |
A Japanese man is on trial at the High Court on a charge of raping
a drunk woman he rode with on a bus in August last year.
The victim, identified only as “Miss X” and described by the
prosecutor as a Chinese-Filipino, was reportedly very drunk at dawn of Aug 5,
2018, when she took a red minibus in Central going to Mong Kok, two witnesses told the jury on Sept
17.
But when she got to her senses, the 25-year-old Miss X
realized she was in the Kowloon
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The suspect has since been identified as Kaise Hiroki, a
Japanese.
The alleged victim’s 19-year-old Filipino boyfriend,
identified only as BF, gave evidence for the prosecution, along with her Nepali
female co-worker.
BF, currently an unemployed chef, told the court he was in his
girlfriend’s flat in Kwai Chung, New
Territories
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Around 2am the next day, he reportedly spoke with her on the
phone and learned that she was already on the minibus to Mong Kok, where she
would take another minibus to Kwai Chung.
That was the last time he talked to “X” that night. He said
he made more than 50 calls to her, but she did not pick up. Around 5am, “X”
finally called and told him she was downstairs.
BF said that when X got inside her home she was drunk, throwing
up and crying. He asked her why she came home so late, but she said she would
wash her private parts first.
When “X” got out of the washroom, she wrapped herself in a
towel. Still crying, she embraced him and told him she had been raped.
X allegedly told her boyfriend it was the “Korean” who was
standing in front of her in the queue for the minibus who raped her. Her Nepali
co-worker and another friend who had seen her off had reportedly asked the suspect
earlier if that was the queue for the Mong Kok minibus.
BF said he prodded “X” to report to the police but she
initially refused, saying she did not want her father to learn about it because
he had a heart ailment.
She then left to sleep in her room while he sat in the
living room checking her phone looking for messages from friends she was with
that night. At about noon, he went out to play basketball in Southorn
Playground in Wanchai.
But that evening, BF accompanied “X” to Princess Margaret
Hospital
On cross-examination, the defense counsel pointed out
inconsistencies between BF’s evidence and his statement to the police, but the
witness said the officer who took his statement could not understand him even
if he was pointing out mistakes.
But he admitted he signed the statement because he had no
sleep, was very tired and had no energy to read it.
The next witness, a Nepali student who was doing a summer
job in the same restaurant as X, said she and her male friend Jack went with
the alleged victim to a pub in Lan Kwai Fong before midnight on Aug 4 to have
cocktails as a birthday treat.
Afterwards they moved to a bar where they took shots of
vodka. After that the two escorted X to the minibus stop and saw her take the
seat next to the defendant.
A 30-minute video of the police interview with the defendant
was played back, and a summary of the report made by the pathologist who
examined X read out. The report said signs of penetration of X’s private parts
were seen during the examination.
The trial continues.
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