173 Hongkongers allegedly splashed with bodily fluids in public over past 8 months

More than 170 Hongkongers have said they were splashed with what they feared were bodily fluids in public over the past eight months, a concern group has revealed, after a woman criticised the penalty given to a man who used a pipette to squirt her with a liquid containing semen.

While some men were among the victims, the online group said on Friday that about 99 per cent of the 173 cases were reported by women.

It summarised that most of the victims were splashed with suspicious liquids, with some saying they felt depressed and anxious after the incidents.

Earlier this week, a court ordered 26-year-old PhD student Lai Changwei to pay a fine of HK$5,000 (US$642) for splashing a liquid containing his semen onto a woman’s buttocks at a university in Hong Kong, blaming his actions on stress.

CCTV footage from the Kowloon Tong campus showed Lai tailing the woman immediately after spotting her inside a university building at around 3.30pm on June 6, the court heard. He then squirted liquid onto the victim using a plastic pipette.