Sheng Ying-fu, a waiter of the ta Ching Restaurant off Canton Road who recently swallowed match heads and then knifed one of his colleagues with a kitchen knife in order to eric it all because he suspected that the latter had made slanderous statements causing his dismissal, was formally charged with attempted murder in the First Special District Court yesterday.
He could not appear at the first hearing as he was in hospital, but he was well enough to go to the court in person under police escort. His victim is still in hospital with many knife wounds. It was revealed in court that after attending his father's funeral Sheng recently returned from his native district only to be told that he had been dismissed. He thought that Ko Ah-mou, the head waiter, had made some slanderous statements an so, after swallowing matches, he we: to He's room to knife him.
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