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Three defendants receive prison terms of up to 18 years over plots in 2019 and 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPublished On 27 Oct 2025<\/span>27 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p>\nClick here to share on social media<\/p>\nshare2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>A Hong Kong court has sentenced three people to prison terms of up to 18 years over three bomb plots in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Lukas Ho, 41, on Monday received an 18-year sentence, with Judge Johnny Chan saying he had an \u201cinflated ego\u201d and showed no remorse, which posed a \u201crisk to public safety\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chan said Ho was the mastermind, showed no remorse, and had no grounds for a reduced sentence. Lee and Cheung, he said, were first-time offenders, and were each granted a four-month reduction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court must provide sufficient deterrence, so the need for defendant\u2019s rehabilitation is less important than the former point,\u201d Chan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, if remorse is limited or superficial, there\u2019s no way to talk about rehabilitation and correction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ho\u2019s co-defendants, Lee Ka-pan and Cheung Ka-Chun, each received jail terms of 16 years and eight months.<\/p>\n<p>The three men remained impassive during sentencing and smiled to friends and family in the public gallery as they were led away by guards.<\/p>\n<p>The trio was part of a group charged in relation to a homemade bomb that went off in a hospital toilet in January 2020, and explosive devices found at a railway station the following month.<\/p>\n<p>The two incidents caused no casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The court previously heard the plot was part of an attempt to force authorities to shut Hong Kong\u2019s borders in the early days of the pandemic, when the coronavirus was spreading in neighbouring mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>A jury acquitted five other people in the same case last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three defendants receive prison terms of up to 18 years over plots in 2019 and 2020. Published On 27 Oct 202527 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share A Hong Kong court has sentenced three people to prison terms of up to 18 years over three bomb plots in 2019 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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