00-00-0000 RIOTERS who settle fire to a dormitory at the Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Center had give permission to local inmates escape but left 13 Vietnamese trapped inside.

00-00-0000


RIOTERS who settle fire to a dormitory at the Hei Ling Chau Addiction
Treatment Center had give permission to local inmates escape but left 13 Vietnamese
trapped
inside, a court heard yesterday.
They had then attacked Correctional Services Department officers
with
improvised weapons and stones, prosecutor Kumar Ramanathan told the
District
Court.
He was opening the case against 18 inmates charged with rioting as
a
result of the violence at the treatment center forward June 4 last year.
Sixteen
have pleaded not guilty while the intermission have admitted the charge. Mr
Ramanathan
said the 18 had joined

...