A mistress killed the children she had with her long-time boyfriend the day after she discovered he had other lovers and children, the Court of First Instance heard yesterday.
Lee Fung-yee, 38, served her 13-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter orange juice spiked with sleeping pills before burning charcoal in their home, the court heard.
Lee has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder over the deaths of the boy, Li Siu-hang, and girl, Li Po-ka, at their Tuen Mun flat on October 14 last year. She has said she will plead guilty to manslaughter.
Prosecutor Graeme Hagon said the children died a day after Lee and boyfriend Li Kam-sze argued over his other lovers and children. Hours before the deaths were discovered, firefighters and police went to the flat because smoke was billowing from it, Hagon said. Lee turned them away by saying she was burning incense.
Hagon described a complicated 'triangular relationship' between Lee, her boyfriend and his 61-year-old long-time girlfriend, Leung Wing-lan. Hagon said Lee met Li, the operator of a Buddhist hall in Tuen Mun where her mother often took her, in 1993 when he was living with Leung.
They later developed a relationship and she became pregnant in 1994 at which time Leung, a divorcee, learned of her existence.
They quarrelled over the relationship but Leung eventually agreed Lee could stay with Li and he housed her in one of more than 20 properties he owned in the building where he lived with Leung. Lee gave her first baby to Leung asking her to take care of him.
