Guard 'killed girlfriend, chopped love rival'
Man denies murdering lover but admits attacking colleague she took an interest in
A security guard stabbed his girlfriend to death after he found out she had shown an interest in a man they worked with who was almost 10 years his junior, the High Court heard yesterday.
The day after killing his girlfriend, Poon Man-sum, 32, chopped their 20-year-old colleague Chan Tai-wai, whom he perceived to be a love rival, at work and chased him for 180 metres before being restrained by colleagues, prosecutor Nicholas Adams said.
Police discovered the body of 24-year-old Law Yuk-yu in her public housing flat the day after her death. She was found under a blanket, a fruit knife stuck in her back.
Poon, 32, pleaded not guilty to murdering Law, a colleague who became his lover, in her flat at the Tai Wo estate in Tai Po on November 28, 2012.
But he admitted attempting to murder Chan by hacking him three times with a cleaver the following day.
Adams said that by the time of the fatal attack, Poon and Law were 11 months into their relationship, which he described as an open secret among their colleagues in security at Coastal Skyline, a private housing estate in Tung Chung.
"It would seem that Ms Law had taken an interest in Mr Chan," Adams said.