A jealous husband bludgeoned his wife to death with a screw-shaped tool because he thought she was planning to run off with another man, a court heard yesterday.
In the early hours of June 23 last year, Tsang Ying-sang called 999 and told police he had killed his wife, prosecutor Peter Chapman said.
Police and ambulance officers went to the couple's Tai Po flat where they discovered the body of Yip Choi-kiu, 47, lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
The metal tool, about 25 centimetres long, was beside her, the court heard.
'I asked [Tsang] why she was in such a state,' Constable Yu Lap-tak told the Court of First Instance.
'He said he had struck her. His wife wanted to run away with a man. That's why he struck her.' Yip's skull was fractured and it appeared she had been struck several times, the court heard.
