Emigrant plunged 12 floors

AN emigrant to Australia died after falling from his 12th-floor flat in Hong Kong, the Coroner's Court heard yesterday.

Coroner Rodney Venning and a jury were told that Lee Che-ming, 46, general manager of Informtech Industrial Ltd, was found outside a block of flats in Sha Tin on November 5 last year.

He had died of multiple injuries.

He is survived by his wife, Ho How-sim, and two children, aged 11 and seven.

Ms Ho, 36, and Mr Lee's sister, Li Chin-ling, 51, said he had not taken his own life.

Ms Ho suspected that her husband had fallen after climbing on to the bay-window platform in his bedroom to close a window.