CRIME | Local cabbie arrested for unconsensual sex

The Judiciary Police sent a local taxi driver to the Public Prosecutions Office for investigation and interrogation yesterday morning after he was reported to have coerced his mainland wife into having sex with him at knifepoint.
The police authority said that the married couple, who had a 6 year old son, were sleeping in different rooms when the sexual coercion took place in their flat in the northern district of the city early last Sunday. The 55-year-old suspect requested that the victim participate in intercourse with him while she was sleeping with the kid. Reluctant to have sex, the 35-year-old victim was allegedly forcefully dragged by the irate man into his room before he violently stripped her naked and subsequently beat her. According to the woman’s recount, the couple’s son was left crying outside the locked room.
The victim managed to get dressed and escape the room with the minor. Afterwards, the man lost his temper and rushed into the kitchen and returned with a knife, threatening to kill his family.
Having gotten rid of the man, his wife managed to call the police for help with the child while staying in their own room. The security authorities quickly arrived at the scene and arrested the taxi driver.
Separately, a local man was swindled out of HKD10,000 in a phone scam last Friday at around 3:00 p.m. after a caller claimed that his daughter had been abducted. Another local man also received a similar phone call at around the same time claiming to have kidnapped his son, but he did not fall for the hoax.
The scams, which happened half an hour apart, both requested HKD300,000 worth of ransom money. During the first telephone call, a Cantonese-speaking man professed that the abductee would be killed in a couple of hours unless he received the payment. Scared by his intimidation and someone loudly crying on the other end of the phone, the distraught victim pawned his diamond ring worth HKD16,000 for the required cash and transferred it to the unknown man’s Shenzhen bank account. However, the victim later realized it was a deception after his daughter arrived home from school.
In another case, a retired man was close to being defrauded as he believed that his mentally-challenged son could be the target of an abduction. However, his wife, whom he informed of the possible kidnapping, saw through the trick and safeguarded the HKD50,000 the nervous man intended to pay.