PhD student at university in Hong Kong admits splashing semen on woman’s buttocks
- Lai Changwei, 26, pleads guilty to indecent assault, which magistrate calls an ‘extremely insulting’ offence against his victim, 22
A PhD student has admitted splashing a liquid infused with his semen onto a woman’s buttocks at a university in Hong Kong because of academic stress.
Lai Changwei, 26, on Thursday pleaded guilty at West Kowloon Court to indecent assault, an act the presiding magistrate called an “extremely insulting” attack on the 22-year-old victim at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).
The defence said Lai, married and living in neighbouring Shenzhen, was pursuing a PhD in neuroscience at CityU on a full scholarship and was expected to graduate in one to two years’ time.
The counsel said Lai was under enormous pressure when he committed the crime because an experiment he had been undertaking did not go as planned.
CCTV footage from the Kowloon Tong campus showed Lai tailing the woman immediately after spotting her inside a university building at around 3.30pm on June 6, the court heard.
He then squirted a milky liquid onto the victim using a plastic pipette.