A man who dismembered a 16-year-old compensated-dating girl and flushed her remains down a toilet was a victim of drugs, his lawyer told a Court of First Instance jury yesterday.
Barrister Finny Chan Fei-nai asked the seven-person jury to accept that Ting Kai-tai, 24, had been so dazed by ketamine and Ecstasy that he did not know how Kiki Wong Ka-mui had died in his bed.
In his closing address, Mr Chan said Ting claimed he had consumed Ecstasy and ketamine the previous night and in the morning, and had passed out before finding Wong dead on the afternoon of April 27. 'He is really a victim of drugs. You know what drugs can do to people. He had foolishly consumed extra drugs, resulting in this tragedy,' Mr Chan said.
Ting, who has denied murdering Wong but has admitted preventing her lawful burial, claimed he could only remember holding the girl around the neck for one to two minutes before he fell unconscious.
The court has heard that after waking to find Wong dead in his Sham Shui Po flat, Ting beheaded her, chopped her into small pieces and flushed the pieces down the toilet before dumping her head in the sea and her bones at a market.
During the trial, the jury heard that telephone records showed Ting had received a 62-minute call on his mobile phone at 2pm that day.