The West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court on September 2, 2026, sentenced Hong Kong Metropolitan University psychology student Lin Tsz-shun to a 12-month probation order after he pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Lin, who was 18 at the time of the case, was involved in an incident in Tsuen Wan.
The assault took place on April 12 at a unit in an industrial building in Tsuen Wan, according to court-reporting accounts. The reports differ on the building’s precise name and whether the unit was on the 25th floor, so the location cannot be stated more specifically from the supplied information.
The reports said Lin attacked a woman with a knife after an argument. One account described the weapon as a ceramic knife. The woman was identified in one report as Wang Pei-hsin and in another as a woman surnamed Wang; the accounts also differed over whether she was Lin’s girlfriend or former girlfriend.
One report said the argument concerned keeping 10 hamsters in the unit. That detail was not included in the other account and is therefore presented as a reported explanation for the dispute, rather than an established point shared by both reports.
The court took into account that Lin was a first-time offender, that the case was not complex and that the assault lasted a short time. The defence said the probation report was positive and recommended a probation order. The court ultimately imposed a 12-month probation order; no conditions were provided in the supplied reports.