A former Chinese University administrator told an inquest yesterday that he did not touch a female colleague improperly. The woman was found dead in a hotel room in 2010.
Jacob Leung Siu-kwong insisted that he had had only a professional relationship with the woman, Wong Yin-wan, who was 47 when she died in October 2010.
'I did not sexually harass her,' he told the Coroner's Court.
Leung, a married father of two, was testifying yesterday at an inquest into the death of Wong, his former subordinate at the secretariat. Her body was found in a Sha Tin hotel room next to a bottle of antidepressants.
The inquest heard earlier that Wong had told a former head of the university's committee against sexual harassment that Leung had once touched her in a cinema, and that he had tried to stroke her back when they worked late together.
However, Wong refused to file a complaint because she felt indebted to Leung for helping her career.
Leung said that in 2007, when Wong was due to move to the vice-chancellor's office, she had invited him to lunch because she wanted to thank him for his years of support. At lunch, she invited him to see a movie that same afternoon. He agreed to go to the lunch and the movie, although he had seen the film with his wife.