Boy's murderer on video, says mother

The distraught mother of a four-year-old boy who was allegedly abducted and murdered in a jealous rage by her live-in-lover screamed across the courtroom at the defendant yesterday.

Ng Yu-ping, 32, wept uncontrollably as she testified against Lam Shing-tak, yelling at him and accusing him of murdering her only child, Law Shiu-wai, whose body was found floating in Gin Drinkers Bay, near Tsing Yi, on July 3, 1999.

Ms Ng said she recognised the defendant in a security video tape played to the court, which prosecutor Frederic Whitehouse claimed showed Lam quickly grabbing and carrying off her son.

Ms Ng told the Court of First Instance she had been frightened Lam would kill her because the defendant had looked for her after her son's body was found.

'He was inhumane. My son is very bright and nice. It had nothing to do with him. Lam Shing-tak, you give me back my son,' the sobbing woman yelled at the defendant, who was sitting in the dock taking notes.

'Are you a human being? How could you still sit here appearing so calm?'

Mr Justice Colin Jackson asked Ms Ng to compose herself.