The previous year, during the police clearance operation in the parking lot in a strange condition and was questioned by someone pushed down the stairs after the death of University of Science and Technology student Zhou Zile, the Coroner’s Court inquest 29 days and the jury deliberated two days after the majority verdict, Zhou’s cause of death is doubtful. Because the closed-circuit television in the parking lot failed to capture the situation 8 seconds before the deceased fell down the stairs. The coroner described the inquest as “almost close to the truth”; however, some witnesses said that the truth is still unresolved and the scars in their hearts are difficult to remove.
During the campaign against the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, there have been cases of “dead bodies found” where the public thought the cause of death was suspicious, but the police claimed it was not.
The inquest was conducted by Chow Tsz Lok, who went out on the evening of November 3, 2019, after learning of a police conflict in Tseung Kwan O. He claimed to be present only as a bystander, but was found in the early hours of the following day lying on the second floor platform of the district’s Sheung Tak Village parking lot with a severe head injury and no broken disc bones that would normally occur when falling off a building, but a fracture. The incident has aroused the attention of the city, some people said that Zhou is in the avoidance of the parking lot 3 floor outside the low wall is a hollow area and cross the fence, the result fell down to the second floor flat seriously injured; suspected that Zhou Ziluo was forced to push down the people raised a variety of questions, including the death of the deceased, the police preamble is not right after the words and the deceased climbing is not possible not to match the situation outside the low wall.
A year after the incident, the Coroner’s Court held an inquest, in 29 days of the inquest, the court summoned a total of 48 witnesses, including firefighters, ambulancemen, police officers, forensic pathologists, and examined 142 exhibits, but because there were no eyewitnesses, as well as closed-circuit television failed to capture the week at 1:1:38 a.m. on the 4th from the 2nd floor line ramp to the 3rd floor and then fall down for 8 seconds, so the truth is a mystery, even if the government chemist to expert When the government chemist testified as an expert witness, the 3rd floor low wall appearance similar to the 2nd floor, inferred that Zhou Ziluo may have mistakenly thought that there was a pedestrian road outside the 3rd floor, climbing the wall on their own, when found the situation outside the wall when it was too late to react to protect themselves, but also by the coroner Gao Weixiong questioned is based on indirect and circumstantial evidence made by the “inference above inference”.
The inquest highlighted the lack of care in the police investigation
However, the inquest also found that the police investigation was not careful, inaccurate time records and other issues, for example, the police claimed to have reviewed more than 1,000 hours of CCTV footage, were not filmed outside the parking lot, but the magistrate went through the footage at lunchtime and found that there was footage of a dark figure falling from the parking lot key footage, after studying it is believed to be the moment Zhou Ziluo fell, overturning police testimony, and In addition, the expert witness also questioned the time of the police recording footage is not accurate enough, faster than the real time there is a slow, the biggest difference, close to 2 minutes, that some police officers may be a visual inference of the confession.
The five-member jury, after two days of 17 hours of deliberations, from the “unlawful killing”, “death by accident” and “doubtful verdict”, to 4-1 to make the verdict of doubtful cause of death, because to make the verdict of “unlawful killing”, must be no doubt, but there are expert witnesses to 8 seconds time, speed and injuries of the deceased pointed out that Zhou Ziluo was attacked and pushed down the stairs of a very small chance.
Magistrate Gao Weixiong said after the jury reached a verdict, the inquest “almost close to the truth”, and said that if the CCTV camera “angle 5 degrees higher, time shift a few seconds slower”, may make the truth more clear. The jury also made recommendations, urging the parking lot management company to add automatic real-time settings for the CCTV system, as well as the addition of railings on the third floor stone wall.
Although the jury made a doubtful verdict, but every day have to attend the court Zhou Ziluo parents respect the verdict, Zhou’s father said with tears in his eyes, the jurors are very serious, I believe they also agree that the incident has a lot of doubts, so the “cause of death is doubtful” verdict. But now is still a little short of finding the truth, expect to find out the truth of the incident during his lifetime, he does not want to guess how the truth at this stage.
However, the first night to the scene for the Zhou Ziluo volunteer first aid Tsang Long Xuan that the Coroner’s Court is not close to finding the truth, because Zhou Ziluo fell 8 seconds before the situation is still unknown, he described the incident is Hong Kong “can not erase the scars”. He remains skeptical of the police’s testimony, including confirming that the key clip of Chow’s fall time was discovered by the magistrate, not the police; in addition, the police had claimed last year that no one had been sent into the parking lot before the incident, and only after the public disclosed the admission, reflecting the police’s concealment and failure to do their best to investigate.
Zhou Ziluo’s death has aroused concern, almost every month on the anniversary of the fall, there are many people to the incident parking lot to pay tribute, while the police are present to guard or obstruct.
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