Solicitor's clerk felt angry when she later told court she stayed voluntarily
A secretary of a listed company told a solicitor's clerk she wanted to escape from the 'evil claws of the ICAC' after she was arrested in an investigation of her employer, the District Court heard yesterday.
The clerk, Frankie Chung Cheong-kuen, of solicitors' firm C.K. Mok & Co, said yesterday he felt very angry when learning that Becky Wong Pui-see later told the court she was staying with the ICAC officers voluntarily.
Mr Chung's diary entry for July 2004, read in court yesterday, said: 'She spoke evasively. Becky Wong stated that she wanted to escape from the evil claws of the ICAC ... Ah, it's not easy.'
Mr Chung, a prosecution witness, admitted yesterday that the lines were a factual account of a phone call he received from Wong at about 1am on July 14, 2004.
The clerk, who became a witness in the habeas corpus application for Wong, said he felt angry after reading the secretary's affirmation in the High Court.