Tsui drove police to scene of robbery he may have committed

Suspected serial killer constable Tsui Po-ko drove a police investigation team to the scene of a fatal bank robbery he himself is believed to have committed, the Coroner's Court heard yesterday.

Tsui, who died in the Tsim Sha Tsui shoot-out last year, had reported for duty between 2pm and 3pm on December 5, 2001, a couple of hours after a Tsuen Wan bank was robbed of more than HK$500,000 and a guard was shot dead, the inquest was told.

Constable Law Wai-fun recalled that Tsui - then a driver in the Police Tactical Unit - had driven her team to the Hang Seng Bank in Belvedere Garden that afternoon.

'We went there to assist the investigation of the robbery by searching for exhibits and conducting questionnaires nearby,' she said. 'Tsui drove us there but he did not need to get out of the car.'

Constable Law was giving evidence on the 25th day of the inquest into the deaths of Tsui and constable Tsang Kwok-hang in a shoot-out in a Tsim Sha Tsui underpass, and those of bank guard Zafar Iqbal Khan and constable Leung Shing-yan, who was killed in 2001 and whose service revolver was found under Tsui's body.

An Australian criminologist told the inquest last week that from his study of the case he had concluded that Tsui, a 'power-control-orientated serial murderer', was responsible for the killings. Clinical psychologist Tsui Pui-wan told the inquest yesterday that Tsui was not shown in home videos taken on March 14, 2001, the day constable Leung was shot dead when he investigated a bogus noise complaint in Shek Wai Kok Estate, Tsuen Wan.