Death penalty for contract killer as gang sentenced over businessman's killing
Hong Kong actor-turned-businessman Yeung Ka-on has been jailed for life by a Shenzhen court for his role in the execution-style murder of Hong Kong businessman Harry Lam Hon-lit in 2002.
Mainland contract killer Yang Wen, 30, who shot Lam dead at point-blank range as he ate breakfast in the Luk Yu Tea House in Stanley Street, Central, received the death sentence yesterday morning at Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court.
Lam, 54, a director of Digger Holdings and an investor in the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, was killed on November 30, 2002. His family members were not in court yesterday.
Yeung appeared weak and nervous early in the sentence hearing, wringing his hands and unsteady on his feet. Making an allowance for this, a judge had a chair and a cup of water provided for him, while all the other defendants remained standing.
But the former actor, popular among those who grew up in the golden era of Hong Kong television in the late 1970s and early 1980s, looked relatively calm when the sentences were read out. Other defendants appeared numb.