Hong Kong police hunt for helper who allegedly ‘assaulted’ cancer patient, 81

Hong Kong police are searching for a foreign domestic helper after security footage captured her trying to stuff a towel into an elderly woman’s mouth and restraining her in a flat in Sham Shui Po.

Security footage circulating online showed the helper, who is from Indonesia, using a yoga rope to tie both hands of a struggling, bedridden 81-year-old woman.

The person who posted the clip on social media said the victim was her mother and that the elderly woman suffered from lymphoma.

A police spokesman said the daughter, aged 55, reported the incident on Tuesday, saying her mother was assaulted by the helper a day earlier, when she was tied up in their home at Lai Tak House in Lai On Estate.

The victim was taken to Caritas Medical Centre in Sham Shui Po for treatment for injuries to her mouth and limbs.

The Post learned the wanted helper was hired in January to care for the victim.