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SCMP Reporter

A transport worker stalked his ex-girlfriend at night before shooting at her as she made her way to a police station to seek help, a court heard yesterday.

Divorcee Jocelyn Rivera Tan, 37, alleged Yeung Kwai-kuen, 36, fired at her as she drove home in her Lexus car after their relationship had soured.

But barrister John McLanachan, for Yeung, put it to Ms Tan at the District Court that she had made up the allegations because she wanted to 'put him in to as much trouble as possible'.

Ms Tan told the court that Yeung telephoned her one night to tell her he had torched one of her other cars, a Ferrari.

'Yeung gave me a call and told me that he had set fire to my car,' she said. 'He also told many other people about that.'

Ms Tan recalled in court how she left a sauna in Tsim Sha Tsui at about 3am on December 4 last year, some time after the alleged phone call, and got into her car to return to her home in Marina Cove, Sai Kung.

But she claimed that as she arrived in Sai Kung, she noticed she was being followed by a blue van, which then rushed towards her. She headed to Sai Kung police station, she said.

On the way, however, the van accelerated and came alongside her car. Ms Tan then said Yeung wound down the window, stretched out his arm and shot at her with what appeared to be a pistol. She then said she drove to the police station and filed a report, adding that police later found a hole in the front door of her car.

Mr McLanachan told the court the couple had been involved in an 'intimate relationship' and had lived together in a To Kwa Wan flat between 1998 and 1999 before separating.

But he said Yeung had left Ms Tan because he felt he was 'losing face' as she had openly kept company with Western friends and made intimate contacts.

But Ms Tan said: 'That's not the case . . . Actually, it's the other way round. It's him [Yeung] who kept dragging me into trouble. He firstly burnt my Ferrari and, as he saw no response from me, he stalked me and shot the pistol at me.'

Yeung denied one count of possessing an imitation firearm at the time of committing criminal damage and one of criminal damage.

No weapon was found by police and Ms Tan could not be certain the object was a real pistol, the court heard. No charge was laid against Yeung over the allegations that he torched her Ferrari.

The trial continues before Deputy Judge Kwok Wai-kin.



Defendant denies possessing imitation firearm, criminal damage