Hong Kong’s top government officials and police officers have paid their final respects to a former constable who died 21 years after being left paralysed in an attack while on duty, during a funeral with full police honours.
Jacky Chu Chun-kwok, who died last month aged 52, was laid to rest on Friday following a service at the Universal Funeral Parlour in Hung Hom at 10.30am, which was attended by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung.
The mood was sombre as family members, friends, colleagues and senior officials bid farewell to Chu, formerly a constable with the Police Tactical Unit.
Holding Chu’s portrait, his wife, Chu Choi Yin-ping, wept alongside their daughter, Michelle, as they stepped out of the funeral parlour.