Peter Van Tu Nguyen (, Yuen Wan-tsz, ; 1 October 1943 – 16 June 2020), was a judge and

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from Hong Kong. Nguyen was born in Vietnam and moved to Hong Kong in 1948. He served as the

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of Hong Kong between 1994 and 1997, and was the first Director of Public Prosecution of Asian descent in the territory. He went on to serve as a judge in the Court of First Instance of the territory's High Court in 1997 until retirement in 2008. In 1999, he served as the presiding judge in the Hello Kitty murder case. He was succeeded by

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as the Crown Prosecutor. He later served as a member of Torture Claims Appeal Board. Nguyen died at home on 16 June 2020.

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