Tsui Po-ko

Tsui Po-ko
Police Portrait of Tsui Po-ko, from the East Kowloon Regional Police Mobile Unit
Born17 May 1970
Shaowu, Fujian, China
Died17 March 2006(2006-03-17) (aged 35)
Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Cause of deathGunshot wounds
OccupationPolice constable
SpouseLee Po-ling (1997–2006; his death)
Children1 daughter
Call signPC53533
Criminal chargeBank Robbery, Murder
In this Chinese name, the family name is Tsui.
Tsui Po-ko
Chinese徐步高
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXú Bùgāo
Yue: Cantonese
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Tsui Po-ko (Chinese: 徐步高) (17 May 1970 – 17 March 2006) was a Police Constable of the Hong Kong Police Force, bank robber and serial killer. He is one of Hong Kong's most known serial killers.

He was killed during an ambush on two Police Constables in a Tsim Sha Tsui subway which led to a shootout. The inquest into the events leading up to his death aroused great interest in Hong Kong, as it unravelled a string of intriguing events, and revealed the secret life of a policeman with a delusional state of mind.[1] On 25 April 2007, the five-person jury in the coroner's court unanimously decided that Tsui was responsible for injuring one and killing two fellow police officers and a bank security guard, on three separate occasions. The jury returned a verdict that he had been "lawfully killed" by fellow officer Tsang Kwok-hang in a shootout.[2] The inquest lasted 36 days, one of the longest ever inquests in Hong Kong.

Assistant Police Commissioner John Lee said that this was "an exceptional case",[3] while Coroner Michael Chan Pik-kiu called it "the most difficult" inquest for a jury he had ever encountered.[4]

  1. ^ Hong Kong nears end of lurid murder case (AFP), The Nation, April 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2007
  2. ^ AFP story, Hong Kong policeman blamed for killings, Channel NewsAsia, 25 April 2007
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference rogue was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Una So, Tsui killed two officers and guard, jury finds Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, The Standard, 26 April 2007