A policeman overheard a teenager confessing to his girlfriend that he had been involved in a plot to kill a man whose body was buried in a barrel of cement, a jury heard yesterday.
Sergeant Chung Ping-yam made a record of 19-year-old Chan Wai-yiu's alleged confession in his notebook, the Court of First Instance was told.
But defence counsel Jeffrey Fenton said the officer had fabricated the evidence.
Sergeant Chung denied the accusation, saying he was standing close to Chan and his girlfriend, Cheung Wing-sum, when Chan spoke.
The court was told Chan said: 'I've done something which I should not have done. I killed someone, helped them [his co-accused] withdraw money . . . But that person was not killed by me personally. I will talk to you about it when you come to visit me in prison.'
The alleged confession forms part of the case against Chan, who the prosecution says did not take part in the actual killing of watch repairer Whitman Woo Ching-ho, 22, or his burial on December 11, 1999.
But it is claimed Chan was part of a plan, with Chan Man-fai, 23, and Fong Yiu-leung, 19, to murder Woo for his money.
