Tsui Po-ko
Hong Kong police officer and mass murderer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tsui Po-ko (Chinese: 徐步高) (17 May 1970 – 17 March 2006) was a Police Constable of the Hong Kong Police Force, bank robber and serial killer. He is one of Hong Kong's most known serial killers.
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![]() Police Portrait of Tsui Po-ko, from the East Kowloon Regional Police Mobile Unit | |
Born | 17 May 1970 Shaowu, Fujian, China |
Died | 17 March 2006(2006-03-17) (aged 35) Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong |
Cause of death | Gunshot wounds |
Occupation | Police constable |
Spouse | Lee Po-ling (1997–2006; his death) |
Children | 1 daughter |
Call sign | PC53533 |
Criminal charge | Bank Robbery, Murder |
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Chinese | 徐步高 | ||||||||||
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He was killed during an ambush on two Police Constables in a Tsim Sha Tsui subway which led to a shootout. The inquest into the events leading up to his death aroused great interest in Hong Kong, as it unravelled a string of intriguing events, and revealed the secret life of a policeman with a delusional state of mind.[1] On 25 April 2007, the five-person jury in the coroner's court unanimously decided that Tsui was responsible for injuring one and killing two fellow police officers and a bank security guard, on three separate occasions. The jury returned a verdict that he had been "lawfully killed" by fellow officer Tsang Kwok-hang in a shootout.[2] The inquest lasted 36 days, one of the longest ever inquests in Hong Kong.
Assistant Police Commissioner John Lee said that this was "an exceptional case",[3] while Coroner Michael Chan Pik-kiu called it "the most difficult" inquest for a jury he had ever encountered.[4]