A young woman told yesterday of weakening and feeling her fingers slip as she clung to balcony railings after being thrown by her boyfriend from an 18th-floor flat.
Tang Kwok-wai, 27, consumed the drug 'ice' and 'changed totally' in the days leading up to the alleged murder attempt, his girlfriend, Au Wing-sze, 18, told the Court of First Instance.
She said she had ignored advice to take Tang to hospital the day before her brush with death.
'He couldn't sleep, he was very suspicious and he asked questions I didn't understand, like whether anyone was eavesdropping, trying to harm us or laying ambush, and so on,' she said.
'He had changed totally . . . I didn't dare speak out.' Tang denies a charge of attempted murder after allegedly throwing the woman from an 18th-floor balcony at Wo Che Estate, Sha Tin, on January 19 this year. The waitress was saved from the fall by a resident on the floor below.
'He [Tang] picked me up and dragged me outside the flat, it was very chaotic, and all of a sudden he said: 'Are you going to tell me what you are trying to hide from me? Believe it or not I will throw you downstairs'.
'I said: 'If you have the guts - do it'.' But she said she never believed he would respond.