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Man gets jail time for attemping to help girlfriend escape
(02-28 17:21)

A man has been jailed for 20-months by a District Court judge for helping his girlfriend's attempted escape as she was being taken by two policewomen from Tuen Mun Juvenile Court to a girls' home last September.
The girl, who's 15, had appeared before a magistrate in connection with a care and protection order hearing. She had earlier written to her boyfriend, Chan Sze-kit, asking him to help her escape, RTHK reports..
The judge sent her to a rehabilitation centre, along with two of the three other defendants who helped her boyfriend. The third was sent to a detention centre.
   
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