A police officer yesterday told the inquest into the death of model Annie Pang Chor-ying that he could see her skeleton immediately on entering her bedroom in the flat she rented from lawyer John Fang Meng-sang.
Earlier in the hearing, Mr Fang, the 61-year-old brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang, testified that he did not see Pang's skeleton when he entered her flat the previous day.
Mr Fang has testified that he had been distracted by mess and water damage and insists that he did not see the skeleton because he went straight to shut the windows in the bedroom.
He paid attention only to the mess and obstacles on the floor and to the windows, which had been blown open. He immediately left the room after shutting the windows, without seeing the skeleton, he said.
Sergeant Tang Wai-sang, a member of the Kowloon West emergency unit at the time, told the inquest that his team arrived at Pang's Yau Ma Tei flat on October 7, 1999, after Yeung Kwai-choi, an employee of Mr Fang's, raised the alarm.
Sergeant Tang, who is now attached to Kowloon City Police Station, said his team arrived at Pang's flat at 3.43pm, after Mr Yeung reported finding a suspected human skeleton when Mr Fang sent him there to clean the flat.
'Mr Yeung said he was instructed by the owner of the flat, Mr Fang, to do some cleaning work in the flat,' Sergeant Tang replied when Coroner's officer Dee Crebbin asked him if Mr Yeung had told him the identity of the flat's owner.
