April 24, 2012

To whom it may concern  

Re:  ….   No. ….   


I have visited Mr … almost every week since he entered (Detention Centre) in November, 2011.  
Previously I knew him, though not very well, in the
Jordan area, where handicapped beggars from the Mainland stay (in an apartment near corner of Jordan Rd and Nathan Rd ).

I have tried to get to know some of these people, have had meals with them, and once had some of them as visitors to my home in
Temple Street See photos

These people are being recruited and used by a gang (Mainland?, HK?).
Such use of handicapped people reminds me of the movie “Slumdog Millionaire”

Mr … is a victim of this gang. When he was involved in the “assisting to arrest” case,
he was following directions from the gang to help the man in trouble. His crime: he provided a wheelchair for a fellow victim. For this he has been incarcerated since November last year.

Mr…’s background: he was badly burnt in a fire in Sichaun in 1989. His first wife died in that fire. He has since remarried and has two children aged 12 and
5 in Sichuan .  

Offenders should be punished, yes. Mainland beggars should be discouraged from coming to Hong Kong , yes. But surely the punishment of handicapped people falls into a special case, especially when they have been used by gangs.

Am I in 2012
Hong Kong or in 1950 Stalinist Russia ?   

Thank you for your kind and compassionate processing of ….’s case.  

Yours sincerely  

 

Fr. John Wotherspoon              CSD chaplain no. 51       I.D. K244926(9)      jdwomi@gmail.com          Ph: 67095674                     www.jesustower.com