Mum opposes move to name park after dead teen: DAB

Mum opposes move to name park after dead teen: DAB

The DAB said on Monday that the mother of a teenager whose body was found floating in the sea has opposed a proposal to name a park in Tseung Kwan O after the dead teen.



The naked body of Chan Yin-lam, who was 15, was found in the sea near Yau Tong last September, and police said she had taken her own life.



But many people questioned the police for saying her death was not suspicious and some anti-government protesters linked her death to the ongoing agitation.



Students of a college run by the Vocational Training Council had also raised doubts on the police claims, but her mother said in a TVB interview that she believed that her daughter committed suicide.



The DAB said the mother approached them to oppose the plan to name a park after Chan. Some pro-democracy district councillors were aiming to move such a motion at a Sai Kung District Council meeting on Tuesday.



DAB lawmaker Elizabeth Quat said the mother told them she hadn't given them her consent to do this.



Quat told the media that the mother approached them to help her express her views. She denied her party was trying to make political capital from the incident.



Fellow lawmaker and solicitor Horace Cheung said he is acting on behalf of Chan’s mother and will inform Sai Kung District Council and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department that she does not want the park named after her daughter.



One of the councillors who proposed the renaming, Ricky Or, said they would change the motion to name the park with the date of Chan's death instead. He also said they would invite the mum to talk to them about the matter.