Hong Kong man arrested for allegedly splashing warm, unknown liquid on 10 women

The person, 56, was caught in a police operation on Nice George Road in Causeway Bay on Friday night time, after an officer noticed him splashing an unknown liquid onto the buttocks of a 17-year-old lady, the power mentioned.

“In accordance with preliminary investigations, the suspect carried the liquid round in a vacuum flask, and poured it onto the palm of his hand earlier than shortly approaching his sufferer from behind,” Senior Inspector Yee Hiu-yin of Mong Kok district crime squad mentioned on Saturday.

She mentioned the person was arrested on the scene for outraging public decency, and remained in custody pending additional investigation. His garments and the vacuum flask had been seized for inspection, Yee added.

Senior Inspector Leung Sin-yi of the Mong Kok district intelligence unit mentioned the victims described the liquid as being “odourless, however with a lightweight color and barely heat”, and that the power was ready for take a look at outcomes to establish it.

Police mentioned the person was suspected to be a serial offender.

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Between January 20 and February 18, police acquired stories from 9 ladies, aged 16 to 32, saying their backsides had been splashed with heat liquid whereas strolling round in Mong Kok, Leung mentioned.

By the point they realised their garments had been dirty, the perpetrator had already fled, she added.

“Some victims even reported being attacked twice inside an hour,” she mentioned, including police managed to establish the suspect by combing by safety footage of the realm earlier than conducting the operation in Causeway Bay on Friday.

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Yee mentioned she had observed quite a lot of folks posting on social media that they’d related experiences, and urged them or any witnesses to return ahead to the Mong Kok crime squad.

She warned that the offence of outraging public decency was a critical crime that would result in a most sentence of seven years in jail.

An Instagram web page has been posting the experiences of ladies who had been assaulted similarly since February 7. The web page has shared the tales of not less than 100 folks and amassed practically 1,800 followers.