A former prostitute's story that she was lured to bed by a man who claimed he could exorcise an evil spirit he said was possessing her was dismissed by a judge yesterday as 'arrant nonsense'.
District Court judge Richard Day acquitted Tse Wun, 48, who denied attempting to procure another person for an unlawful sex act under false pretences.
Judge Day also awarded legal costs of $80,000 to the noodle shop delivery worker.
The woman, now 20, had claimed she was lured to spend the night of June 2 last year with Mr Tse in a guesthouse at Yau Ma Tei, where he unsuccessfully tried to have sex with her.
The woman, 19 at the time, told the court she would not have gone to the guesthouse had Mr Tse not led her to believe she was possessed by a ghost and that the only way to expel it was to have sex with him.
Judge Day rejected her evidence entirely: 'She is in any view a silly, immature girl who tells a story about ghosts and evil spirits which stretches the bounds of credibility . . . her evidence is arrant nonsense.'