Hong Kong internet sensations “Mr and Mrs Ho” have once again captured media attention after the husband was arrested for spraying insecticide at pedestrians during an altercation in Tuen Mun on Sunday.
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The 77-year-old man, known only as Mr Ho, reportedly became embroiled in a dispute with a 41-year-old woman and her son at around 3pm on Sunday, near an exit at Siu Hong MTR station.
During the confrontation, he allegedly produced a can of bug spray and used it, causing minor inflammation to the woman’s hand. She was treated at Tuen Mun Hospital.
Her son, 15, phoned the police, who attended the scene and arrested the elderly man on suspicion of administering poison with intent to injure, an offence that carries a potential penalty of up to three years in prison.
Online footage shows Mr Ho retrieving a canister from his wife’s cloth bag, where he was heard saying, “Cockroach spray, there are cockroaches,” before spraying the insecticide towards the person filming.
The couple first gained public attention in May last year due to their whirlwind romance and marriage, which became a media sensation after Ho wed his mainland Chinese wife, a divorcee, just one month after they met.