Yuen Long protester jailed for role in riot; Transport worker gets 40-month term while young co-defendant is sent to detention centre

A transport worker has been jailed for more than three years for ­taking part in a riot in which a passer-by was detained and ­attacked after being accused of tearing messages of support for anti-government protesters from a wall in 2019.

The District Court sentenced Cheung Yu-tai to 40 months in jail yesterday over the overnight chaos in Yuen Long that began as a demonstration on September 21, 2019, marking two months since the infamous mob attack on commuters and protesters at t...