Judge accepts Szeto Sing-kwong’s diminished responsibility after he attacked two women at a shopping centre during a schizophrenic episode in 2023
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenBrian WongPublished: 2:51pm, 22 Sep 2026Updated: 2:53pm, 22 Sep 2026A Hong Kong man with a mental disability has been sentenced to an indefinite period in a psychiatric hospital for stabbing two women to death in a frenzied knife attack at a shopping centre three years ago.The High Court on Tuesday ordered former warehouse worker Szeto Sing-kwong to receive mandatory psychiatric treatment and supervision at Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre in Tuen Mun, noting that he continued to display limited insight into his mental ailment after killing two people for no logical reason.
Szeto, 43, pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility after prosecutors accepted that he should not be held liable for murder as he had experienced an acute relapse of paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the offence.
