HONG KONG | Ambulance summoned to Leung’s residence as daughter alleges abuse on Facebook

Leung Chun-ying

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying yesterday afternoon held a press conference telling the city’s media there was no domestic violence in his family home following allegations made by his daughter on social media, the South China Morning Post reported.
According to the Hong Kong-­based newspaper, CY Leung made a plea to the public to give his 23-year-old daughter Chai-yan space, after a spate of Facebook posts yesterday morning that alleged she had been pushed and slapped by her mother and was planning to leave home.
An ambulance and police were summoned to Government House yesterday morning following a series of messages posted on Chai-yan’s publicly accessible Facebook page.
SCMP detailed several of the messages, one of which read: “My mother just literally pushed me up against a wall slapped me [sic]. I fell, hit my spine against corner of study table.”
She later posted “off to hospital”, as emergency services arrived at the residence.
In an unusually personal response to yesterday morning’s events, according to the paper, Leung said Chai-yan had been suffering “health problems” and had been emotionally unstable since she started her studies in the UK.
“As a daughter of a public officer, she has been facing tremendous pressure in life,” SCMP quoted Leung as saying.
“Meanwhile, there are many public functions at the Government House and therefore she could not have a quiet environment to recover.” Leung declined to reveal any more details about Chai-yan’s health.
Furthermore, during the 10-minute press conference he denied his wife had been violent towards his daughter, or that she had been barred from leaving Government House – both allegations she made on her Facebook account earlier yesterday before the account was removed at lunchtime.
As stated by the Hong Kong broadsheet, he told journalists that police had confirmed no one at the scene had suffered any injuries.
“I talked to her personally a few hours ago and she said she did not need to go to the hospital or [seek] any medical attention,” Leung said.
On the allegations Chai-yan had been held against her will, he added: “You can use common sense to judge, how can anyone possibly imprison a person in Government House”, the paper reported.
A spokeswoman for the emergency services yesterday morning confirmed an ambulance had been sent to Government House after receiving a call at 10.50am. “The ambulance has left and no one needed hospital treatment,” the spokeswoman said at 11.45am.
According to SCMP, she did not reveal why the ambulance had been requested and it was unclear who had made the call.
A police spokeswoman said the force was also contacted, at 10.51am, saying “a woman needed police assistance”.  Officers are currently investigating at the scene, she added. MDT