Constable Tsui Po-ko's mother, Cheung Wai-mei, was questioned in the Coroner's Court regarding HK$200,000 she received from her son in October 2004.
Tsui's wife, Li Po-ling, applied to the inquest not to give evidence.
THE TESTIMONY
Ms Cheung, 61, said she retired in 2001 but kept giving money to her two sons, especially Tsui Po-ko. The amounts varied from HK$5,000 to HK$10,000. She had given Tsui HK$150,000 on October 27, 2004, but she refused to disclose how much she would give her younger son, Tsui Po-wan: 'May I keep silent to this question? I don't want to make a comparison between my two sons... but I did not give [Po-wan] so much money.'
She opened an account for securities trading two weeks after she gave Tsui HK$150,000. She said the account was operated by Tsui: 'I authorised him to handle the transactions in the account. We made investments together. I don't know how many transactions were there but I knew he had bought HSBC shares. I have no idea of the other three transactions.'
She was not sure about a sum of HK$350,000 Tsui had deposited into her account on February 22, 2005. The coroner reminded her of the risk of self-incrimination if her testimony touched on the question of the source of money. She was given a chance to decline to answer: 'I decline to answer.'
