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An unemployed Filipino has denied a charge of assault on a Chinese female in a hospital, setting the stage for his trial next month, during which he is expected to claim that he never had physical contact with the alleged victim.
Arnias Allen Gomez, 51 years old, had been charged by police with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, contrary to Common Law and punishable under section 39 of the Offenses Against the Person Ordinance.
His duty lawyer told a hearing at Kowloon City Court Tuesday
(July 8) that their defense will be based on a factual dispute as to whether
violence was used in the incident, which took place last April 28 at the
Ambulatory Care Centre of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei.
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The prosecutor said four prosecution witnesses will be
presented during the one-day trial, scheduled for Aug. 4 by Magistrate Philip Chan.
He was released on $100 bail.
In a separate case, a construction worker was allowed bail
of $1,000 in a case where he is charged with wounding a Filipino woman, contrary
to section 19 of the Offenses Against the Person Ordinance.
Saudee Tagao, 42 years old, is acused of wounding a certain
Maricar at We Hotel Kowloon on Temple Street in Kowloon last March 16.
