A Hong Kong vocal instructor has been found guilty of molesting seven male students over a six-year period.
The District Court on Thursday convicted Drawson Lam Chun-yat of nine counts of indecent assault and two of common assault for the offences committed in his three classrooms in Cheung Sha Wan and Kwai Chung between 2018 and 2023.
Lam, 39, was known as a contestant in the debut season of Midlife, Sing & Shine, a televised singing competition organised by TVB, which aired in 2022. He was eliminated in the preliminary round.
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The instructor was arrested upon returning from mainland China in July 2023, after a 15-year-old boy from Taiwan filed a police report about being groped by him on two occasions earlier that year.
The case garnered widespread media attention and prompted 10 other complainants to come forward. One of them, a 34-year-old man, said Lam assaulted him when he was a student interviewing the instructor as part of a school assignment in 2008.
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Deputy Judge Bernard Chung Wai-keung found the allegations by seven of the 11 complainants were substantiated beyond a reasonable doubt, including those made by the boy, who is now 18.
During the trial, the court heard how Lam forcefully removed the teenager’s pants and touched his genitals under the pretence of conducting a medical inspection in May 2023.