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+ A PERIOD OF ABOUT 15 MINUTES, WITH POLICE SUPPORT, THEY ARRESTED THREE ILLEGAL HAWKERS, SEIZED THEIR HAWKER BARROWS AND OTHER PARAPHERNALIA, AND TOOK THE MEN AND THEIR EQUIPMENT BACK TO THE LORRY PREPARATORY TO THEIR BEING TAKEN TO THE POLICE STATION AND CHARGED.
+WHILE THIS WAS HAPPENING IT WAS NOTICED THAT AT THE FAR END OF FAT TSEUNG STREET, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF CASTLE PEAK ROAD, A CROWD HAD GATHERED AND A POLICEMAN WAS PRESENT.
+SOME MEMBERS OF THE TEAM WENT TO INVESTIGATE, AND IT WAS FOUND THAT A CHILD HAD BEEN BADLY BURNT WHEN AN ILLEGAL HAWKER SELLING FRIED BEAN CURD HAD OVERTURNED HIS BARROW.
+THIS UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT HAPPENED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF BUSY CASTLE PEAK ROAD SOME DISTANCE FROM WHERE THE GDT MEMBERS HAD MADE THEIR ARRESTS.
*AT NO STAGE DID MEMBERS OF THE TEAM NOTICE THIS BEAN-CURD HAWKER, OR MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO APPROACH HIM. THE TEAM'S ACTIVITIES WERE CONFINED TO THE OTHER END OF THE STREET, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF CASTLE PEAK ROAD.+
THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THAT THE DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRY HAD BEEN COMPLETED SOME TIME AGO, BEFORE LAST WEEK'S COURT CASE IN WHICH THE HAWKER WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS' JAIL AFTER HAVING ADMITTED A CHARGE OF WOUNDING CAUSING GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM.
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