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SCMP Reporter

A WEALTHY businessman who killed a young student with chloroform after luring her to a hotel to film a pornographic video had made explicit videos of three of his employees, a court heard yesterday.

  Luk Yee-ling, 21, died after she was drugged and subjected to a sex attack by property agent Hon Leung-fong and his lover, Phoebe Wong Yim-ping.

  After stripping the Baptist College student, Hon filmed her lying naked on the floor and left the camera running as he indecently assaulted her, the High Court heard.

  Luk, who had been knocked out with two bottles of chloroform, never regained consciousness and died in hospital two days later.

  Hon and Wong have denied murdering Luk at the Royal Park Hotel, Sha Tin, on July 24 last year but have admitted manslaughter.

  Hon, 33, described as a ''Hong Kong success story'', got to know Luk after she joined his property company, Dairy Sky Industries, during a college holiday.

  Prosecutor Pat Loftus said Wong, 28, lured Luk to the hotel on the pretext of giving her a birthday party.

  Wong's defence counsel, Niall Stirling, said the former karaoke hostess had been ''infatuated'' with Hon, who held considerable influence over her.

  The pair had started an affair after Hon suggested Wong could repay a $50,000 loan with sexual favours at $5,000 a time.

  Mr Stirling said: ''He told her he would like to treat her as a mistress, but he wanted to shoot a videotape of her as some sort of token he would retain.

  ''He said if she refused to be filmed she would be dismissed and would immediately have to repay the debt. A video film was made of the two of a sexually explicit nature.

  ''Prior to that he had had sexual relations with two other of his female employees and made video films of them, again of a sexually explicit nature.''   But Mr Stirling said in July the businessman told Wong, who also worked for his firm, he wanted sex with someone else and suggested Luk.

  Wong said she agreed to help after Hon threatened to send the sex video to her family.

  Mr Stirling added: ''He promised the most he would do would be to fondle Luk's body and he would not have sexual intercourse with her.

  ''He said he would want to shoot a videotape of her naked body as he liked to shoot videotapes of girls with whom he had sexual activities to keep as souvenirs.

  ''When police raided his home they found a number of videotapes including one involving the first and second defendants in various sexually explicit situations.''   Hon's defence counsel Gary Plowman QC, said the businessman was ''extremely remorseful'' and had been ''devastated'' by Luk's death.

  During one interview with police, he became so agitated he burst into tears and repeatedly struck his head.

  Mr Plowman said Hon had never intended to rape Luk or cause her harm.

  He said: ''Tragic and bizarre as the facts are they do not fall into the worst case category. No matter how you view the facts they do not amount to an attack on the borderline of murderous intent.''   Mr Plowman said Hon, who also ran a textile company, was a very successful businessman until his ''fall from grace''. Letters from colleagues described him as ''smart, energetic, hard-working, generous and helpful with staff''.

  But the court heard his business, which had a turnover of $32 million to $58 million a year before his arrest, was now being wound up. Mr Plowman rejected Wong's claims that Hon blackmailed her with the sex video.

  Mr Justice Leonard adjourned sentencing until next Tuesday, saying it was a ''most unusual case''.



Chloroform killer 'made sex films of employees'