Jobless man slashed brother to death in restaurant while high on drugs, Hong Kong court told
Defendant accused of lashing out with a sashimi knife during argument, then kicking bleeding victim in stomach
A jobless drug user allegedly killed his brother by slashing him 22 times with a sashimi knife while under the influence of drugs, the High Court heard on Friday.
Raymond Tsang Man-wai, who is charged with murder, later asked another of his brothers over the phone in the wake of the incident whether the victim had offended someone, his sibling told the court.
Tsang, 39, met his brother Ringo Tsang Wing-ho in a restaurant in Mong Kok on September 24, 2014, the court heard.
The defendant allegedly took out a sashimi knife after an argument with his sibling sitting across a table and slashed him repeatedly.
The younger brother kicked the victim in the stomach as he lay bleeding on the floor, then put the knife into a plastic bag and walked out of the restaurant.
He went to the Lok Ma Chau border control point with the apparent intention of leaving the city, before he changed his mind and turned himself in to a uniformed policeman at the public transport interchange.
Ringo Tsang, 42, was taken to Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei where he was certified dead on arrival. A postmortem examination conducted two days later found 22 cut and stab wounds on his body and limbs.
In his opening statement, prosecutor John Dunn told the court that the defendant had three brothers and two sisters, and he ranked fifth in the family.
Tsang Man-leung, the eldest son, denied there had been a problem in the relationship between the defendant and the deceased.
He said the victim had been willing to offer help and give money to the defendant.
He recalled that he was shocked when he was told his brother had been chopped to death but at that time he did not know who had done it.
When the eldest brother passed the news to the defendant over the telephone after the attack, the younger brother asked: “Could it be that Wing-ho had offended someone?”
The defendant, who has pleaded not guilty to murder, said he had taken the drug “Ice” and acted irrationally.
The trial continues on Monday before Deputy High Court Judge Mr Justice Michael McMahon.
