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Three contractor staff to stand trial over Mirror concert accident
Three employees of Engineering Impact - the main contractor of local boy band Mirror's incident-hit concern in July in which three dancers were injured by a falling screen - will stand trial in the district court on March 30 for conspiring to defraud by falsifying equipment data to obtain approval from authorities.
Project managers Ng Hoi-ying, 41, and Joseph Leung Yiu-cho, 48, and technical coordinator Lam Chi-wah, 60, appeared before acting principal magistrate Peony Wong Nga-yan in Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts yesterday.
Each faces a charge of conspiracy to defraud and a joint charge of fraud for allegedly making false declaration about the weight of stage equipment in the performance application made to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
On July 28 last year, a giant screen fell onto the Hong Kong Coliseum stage on which the Mirror boy band and its dancers were performing.
Three dancers were hit by the screen, including 28-year-old Mo Lee Kai-yin who was seriously injured in the neck.
No pleas were taken and Wong adjourned the case to March 30.
The court heard that seven colleagues of the trio will testify as prosecution witnesses.
The accused were each granted bail for HK$10,000 in cash, ordered to live at their home addresses and report to the police every Monday.
They were also ordered to surrender all travel documents.
However, the judge permitted Ng and Lam to go to Singapore and Malaysia for business in April and May.
Each faces a charge of conspiracy to defraud and a joint charge of fraud for allegedly making false declaration about the weight of stage equipment in the performance application made to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
On July 28 last year, a giant screen fell onto the Hong Kong Coliseum stage on which the Mirror boy band and its dancers were performing.
Three dancers were hit by the screen, including 28-year-old Mo Lee Kai-yin who was seriously injured in the neck.
No pleas were taken and Wong adjourned the case to March 30.
The court heard that seven colleagues of the trio will testify as prosecution witnesses.
The accused were each granted bail for HK$10,000 in cash, ordered to live at their home addresses and report to the police every Monday.
They were also ordered to surrender all travel documents.
However, the judge permitted Ng and Lam to go to Singapore and Malaysia for business in April and May.
