Hong Kong student nurse convicted over multiple knife attacks on married ex-boyfriend
Deputy District Court judge does not accept woman’s evidence, saying she was not an honest or reliable witness and she now faces a long jail sentence
A student nurse who stabbed her married ex-boyfriend seven times and told his mother that he may not return home in one piece was convicted in the District Court on Thursday.
Kan Woon-tsz, 29, had denied four counts of wounding with intent and another of criminal intimidation, arguing instead that the string of knife attacks was the result of self-defence against Cheng Pak-yiu, 37.
But deputy judge Ko Wai-hung did not accept any of her evidence, after finding she was not an honest or reliable witness.
She will be sentenced on December 1, pending reports.
Multiple letters were submitted in her mitigation.
Defence lawyer Lawrence Lok Ying-kam SC asked for a shorter jail term to give his client a chance to rehabilitate herself. “The defendant regrets her behaviour,” he said.
But the judge said: “A long sentence seems unavoidable because of the seriousness of the offence.”