{"id":11647,"date":"2021-01-22T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T11:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118894\/hong-kong-judge-overturns-police-officers-convictions"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T11:44:04","slug":"hong-kong-judge-overturns-police-officers-convictions-for-making-false-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/hong-kong-judge-overturns-police-officers-convictions-for-making-false-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong judge overturns police officers\u2019 convictions for making false statements"},"content":{"rendered":"Three Hong Kong police officers have won an appeal against their convictions for making false statements by omitting certain details of how they came to find drugs on a suspect some four years ago.The High Court on Friday cleared Sergeant Ng Shiu-lung, 46, and constables Joe Tang Man-cho, 36, and Lee Hin-lai, 33, of their joint count of perverting the course of justice, for which they were each sentenced to 10 weeks in jail upon conviction two years ago.The case stemmed from a stop-and-search\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118894\/hong-kong-judge-overturns-police-officers-convictions\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Hong Kong police officers have won an appeal against their convictions for making false statements by omitting certain details of how they came to find drugs on a suspect some four years ago.The High Court on Friday cleared Sergeant Ng Shiu-lung,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11648,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions\/11648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}