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Legal professionals for Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai in intimidation case say impulsive ‘scolding’ sparked by strain from rival newspaper Legal professionals defending Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, on trial for intimidating a rival newspaper reporter, have characterised the incident as impulsive “scolding†on a scorching summer season night following years of strain imposed on him by his competitor and its workers.Closing the case on Friday, defence counsel Peter Duncan SC stated his consumer needs to be acquitted of felony intimidation when he didn’t threaten the Oriental Every day reporter with bodily harm in the course of...
