Hong Kong internet personality ‘Mr Ho’ dies at 79, week after receiving jail term

A Hong Kong man known on the internet as “Mr Ho” has died, a week after receiving a two-month prison sentence for stabbing his wife.A source told the South China Morning Post on Tuesday that Ho Huen, 79, had died in a public hospital a day earlier.Ronson Chan Ron-sing, former chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, also said on social media that Ho had died, citing people close to the deceased.“He could not survive without being able to eat,” said Chan, who earlier revealed that he spent his five-day sentence for obstructing public officers in the same cell as Ho.The District Court last week sentenced Ho to two months in prison for wounding his 45-year-old wife, Ye Xiuding, also known as “Mrs Ho”.He had learned that she intended to leave the public rental flat they shared for mainland China on May 30 last year.Ho was not in court when the sentence was handed down, as he had been hospitalised for an undisclosed medical condition. Judge Stanley Chan Kwong-chi decided that the case should be concluded as early as possible.