A handyman killed a 74-year-old man before impersonating him to withdraw HK$600,000 from banks, the Court of First Instance was told yesterday.
Alan Ng Nga-lun, 52, pleaded not guilty in the Court of First Instance to murdering Tang Lo-loi at his house in Tseng Tau Village, Ma On Shan, on November 9, 2010. He pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud in stealing HK$600,000 from Tang's bank accounts at HSBC and Bank of China on the day following Tang's death.
The court heard that Ng, impersonating Tang by donning a cap and a stick, fooled bank staff about his identity and withdrew funds from Tang's bank accounts.
He produced Tang's identity card, bank card and bank book and signed Tang's name on documents. He made off with HK$590,000 in cash from an HSBC branch in Tsuen Wan, and 10,000 yuan from a BOC branch, the court was told.
Prosecutor John Dunn told the Court of First Instance that Ng and the victim met when they both lived in Tseng Tau Village for several years, before Ng left the community in 2008.
Ng had done renovation work for Tang, a native villager who had left his family in Britain in 1992, when he retired, and returned to the village.
