An elderly widow yesterday won the right to evict a woman claiming to be her late husband's mistress from a flat in a block of cage homes he had owned.
Zhou Cui-hao, 76, went to court to demand that middle-aged Ting Fung-yee vacate the Shamshuipo building immediately and hand over rent she had collected from the Camp Street block's cagemen over the past eight years.
When Ng Ching-poon died in 1990, aged 68, his widow was appointed sole executor of his estate, which included both the Camp Street premises and a second Shamshuipo property in Reclamation Street, since reclaimed by the Government.
But Ms Ting came forward claiming to be Ng's secret lover. She said Ng had promised her that when he died, the Camp Street building would be hers. She said she had been living with Ng for the last decade of his life and she was entitled to stay on in their home.
Ng's widow rejected her story, saying her husband had been carrying on an affair, but with a different woman.
On June 1, 1996, she gave the unwelcome tenant one month to pack her bags and leave.
