A graphic designer told a court yesterday how computer technician Sze Ho-chun had burned her a compact disc containing the infamous Edison Chen Koon-hei sex pictures and marked it with an X.
Janet Leung Ting-yan said Sze, 24, did this after showing the pictures to her and a female colleague at their office via an online server.
But Ms Leung rejected a suggestion that she and her colleague had accessed and downloaded the pictures themselves, without Sze's help.
She was giving evidence on the second day of the trial of Sze, accused of purloining hundreds of photos that had been on Chen's computer and which triggered a scandal last year when they appeared on the Net. Sze has pleaded not guilty in Kowloon City Court to three counts of obtaining access to a computer with a view to making a dishonest gain between January 1 and June 8, 2006.
Ms Leung, a designer with a home appliance company, told the court Sze had helped them repair an Apple MacG5 computer at their office one day in 2006. Sze mentioned in a conversation that Chen had recently taken his laptop to Elite Multimedia in Central, where the technician worked, Ms Leung said.
Sze further revealed that a colleague who repaired Chen's computer had discovered some 'locked' files containing pictures of Chen and Gillian Chung Yan-tung of the Twins singing duo, to which they had been able to gain access.
After hearing this, another designer, Fanny Choi Yuk-fun, asked Sze to show them the pictures. Sze then used their office computer to click onto an online server and had entered a password, before pictures featuring Gillian Chung appeared on the screen, Ms Leung added.