Hong Kong man arrested over wife’s murder

A kitchen worker was arrested late on Friday night over the alleged murder of his wife in a domestic fight in Tuen Mun.

Police were called to a flat in Affluence Garden, on Tsing Chung Koon Road, shortly before midnight after the 58-year-old surrendered himself at Castle Peak Police Station, approximately 5km from his home.

Officers and firefighters smashed in the door of the flat, where they discovered the man’s 52-year-old wife lying unconscious in the bedroom with injuries to her head, neck and hands.

The woman, a housewife, was rushed to Tuen Mun Hospital, but doctors there could not revive her. She was pronounced dead about an hour later.