Mainlander admits preparing tainted rice dinner that felled man and co-worker
A wife slipped rat poison into her husband's dinner in an attempt to stop him from seeing women on the mainland, a court heard yesterday.
But instead of just frightening him, as Huang Zhuandi intended, Leung Kam-shing and a co-worker, Liu Qunying, who ate his leftovers, collapsed with convulsions and were admitted to intensive care. Both still suffer side-effects from the poisoning on January 23.
Huang pleaded guilty in the Court of First Instance to two counts of administering poison to inflict grievous bodily harm. Sentencing was adjourned to January 13.
Mr Justice Louis Tong Po-sun was told Huang, a mainlander, came to Hong Kong to visit her husband, who lived with several other workers in a wooden house on a Hop Shing construction site at Shau Kei Wan.
The court heard that on January 23 Huang cooked a dinner of rice, vegetables, fish and pork for her husband. who promptly vomited and fell onto the floor in convulsions.