The abode claimant who died after last year's fatal Immigration Tower blaze bought paint thinner to commit suicide and supplied at least one fellow claimant with the liquid, a court heard yesterday.
Jurors had previously been told some of the claimants present when the blaze broke out were seen splashing liquid which prosecutors allege was thinner.
In a videotaped police interview from August 6 last year played in the Court of First Instance yesterday, defendant Fu Mo said Lam Siu-sing bought the thinner to kill himself and gave a bottle to him.
Fu said he had also intended to take his own life by pouring the thinner over himself, but did not go through with the plan as he 'feared I would get other people into trouble' and that it was not worth it.
Lam, 26, and senior immigration officer Leung Kam-kwong, 42, were injured in the August 2 blaze and died in hospital on August 11 last year.
Fu, 39, Sze Kwan-lung, 24, Pang Hon-kwan, 40, Lam Hing-luen, 27, brothers Yeung Yee-ping, 29, and Yeung Yee-yim, 38, and Chau Hung-chuen, 30, have pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one of arson.
