Hong Kong police superintendent allegedly molested subordinate in public toilet, court hears

The court heard the defendant had touched the victim’s breast, forcibly kissed her, and pressed her head down to perform oral sex on him on the first occasion. In the next few hours, Luk roused the victim who appeared to be a bit tipsy, and took her back to the toilet twice to continue the assault.

“I think everyone there should have been able to sense that [something had happened], but nobody stepped up to save me,” she said in the witness box.

“I did not want to use the toilet, but he kept waking me up and asking me to go with him. That was not normal behaviour. But I felt helpless.”

The victim said she later told her then boyfriend and her brother of the assault, but she dared not make a report to her supervisor because she was worried that no one would believe her accusation against a high-ranking officer.

She added that she did not quit her job even though it cost her the relationship with her then boyfriend, which ended about a month after the incident.

The prosecution witness told the court that she did not return to the police station until July 4 that year due to a positive test result of Covid-19. But on the night before she was ready to resume work, Luk offered to give her a lift the next morning.

The woman said she questioned the defendant’s motive but did not pursue it further after he went silent, because she feared the superintendent would “abuse his power” if she turned him down.

The court heard Luk had made it a habit to drive her from work to home in the following days.

On the second shared ride, the defendant made a detour and brought her to a beach in Tai Po for a sunset view, she said, adding he put his hand on her shoulder at one point.

“I was frightened and asked him what he was doing. I dodged his hand and left the area,” she said, adding she shared her live location with another colleague, whom she was supposed to have dinner with on the evening of July 5.

During the car ride the next day, the defendant told her he had feelings for her, but she rebuffed him, according to the victim’s testimony.

“I told him that he was a married man,” she said. “But he responded that it was some sort of fate that brought us together [now and here].”

Two days later at work, the victim asked the defendant to stay away from her and added that her then boyfriend had means to track her down via an app if he knew the police officer was giving her trouble.

Subsequently, the defendant bought a new phone for her and demanded she use that phone exclusively for work communication with him, the victim added.

“I declined him at first, but then I felt like I was forced to take it as an order [from a superior],” she said.

Luk also denied four other charges involving a series of assaults on the victim and two other male colleagues who attempted to stop him from drink-driving in a car park of a residence in Fanling on July 15 that year.

The separate incident allegedly took place after the group gathered for a banquet to bid farewell to a chief inspector.

But the defendant said under caution that he was not drunk and only sped off when he saw the three were hitting his car.

The trial continues on Wednesday.