Prosecution drops charges against mother who slashed twin handicapped sons in Diamond Hill home

Hong Kong’s justice department has dropped a case against a mother who allegedly knifed her twin handicapped sons at their Diamond Hill home in October last year.

Prosecutors told the Kowloon City Court on Friday they had decided to withdraw the arraignment after careful consideration of the Prosecution Code, but did not explain further.

The mother Chien Hsiao Chuan, 53, who was charged with two counts of wounding, was released by the court unconditionally after the magistrate granted the request.

The court previously heard that the woman had assaulted the twins and hurt herself at their home in Lung Kei House of Lung Poon Court.

The assault at Lung Kei House, Lung Poon Court was reported to police in the morning of October 5 last year by the twins’ 51-year-old father surnamed Or.

He first spotted a few slash wounds on the abdomen of the younger brother who was in the toilet. He then checked on the older brother as well as Chien, and found both of them had also sustained slash wounds to their abdomen. 

It was understood that the brothers, who suffer from autism spectrum disorder and are intellectually handicapped, had been staying in a special school in Shek Kip Mei, but were requested to move back home as they had turned 21 in July last year.