Once the trial of the Foreigner Richard concluded, it was naturally the turn of the Foreigner Sir Hawking and that Banana Person, Justice of the Peace Kenneth.
Compared with the Foreigner Richard, who understood Zhou Quan's way of doing things and knew the decisions of the Police Force's core leadership, the next two defendants were clearly far less cooperative.
The lawyers Sir Kwan had thoughtfully prepared for them clearly did not satisfy either man.
Their defense lawyers were therefore legal elites they each kept on their payroll.
Yet no matter how well their defense lawyers understood the law or how many loopholes they could find in Hong Kong Island's laws,
with overwhelming evidence now before them, the defense lawyers could do nothing to turn things around.
What was more, Lam Yiu-cheung's impassioned accusations during the first trial had already influenced the jurors' emotions.
Coupled with the Foreigner Richard's guilty plea, this left the two men with no room for rebuttal whatsoever.
After the Female Judge consulted with Oswald and the other jurors, she likewise handed down the maximum sentences.
However, neither man had directly participated in those criminal offenses, with Richard, Lam Yiu-cheung, and others standing between them and the crimes.
The charges against them therefore amounted, at most, to violations of Hong Kong Island's Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, misconduct in office, and similar offenses.
With all the charges combined, the two men ultimately received only fixed prison terms of differing lengths.
Although their sentences were not as long as the Foreigner Richard's, they were enough to destroy both men's political futures.
More importantly, even after they finished serving their sentences, whether they could withstand the Foreigners' subsequent reckoning remained unknown.
What happened next had nothing to do with Zhou Quan.
In light of the Foreigner Richard's cooperation, Zhou Quan