The mother of a four-year-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by her live-in lover testified yesterday that the man could not accept her son as part of the family and had taunted the boy over the way he spoke.
Asked to identify him in court, a sobbing Ng Yu-ping, 32, said she would never forget the face of accused Lam Shing-tak, 31.
She said Lam had repeatedly told her not to talk to her son, Law Shiu-wai, over the phone or see him again.
Toy salesman Lam denies kidnapping and murdering Shiu-wai on June 30, 1999, at Wong Chuk Hang Estate, Aberdeen.
The boy's body was found floating in Gin Drinkers Bay, near Tsing Yi, by a fisherman on July 3, 1999. He was gagged, his legs were tied with adhesive tape and his thumbs were locked together with plastic straps, prosecutor Frederic Whitehouse has told the Court of First Instance.
Ms Ng told the court she married her husband, Law Tai-yau, 34, on the mainland in 1992 and moved to the SAR with Shiu-wai in March 1997.
Ms Ng said she came to know Lam in October 1997 when they both worked at a cafe in Ocean Park. They talked frequently about her family problems, as her husband had gambling debts.