Killer's statements tell of aunt interrupting theft bid
A SELF-CONFESSED killer told police how he attacked his elderly aunt after she caught him trying to steal valuables from a locked trunk, the High Court heard yesterday.
Wilson Lee, 31, who admits manslaughter, bludgeoned Fu Kiu, 72, to death 12 years ago.
But he was only arrested last year when he was picked up as he tried to enter Sweden after 11 years on the run.
In police statements read out in court yesterday, Lee claimed he struck Fu when she caught him rummaging through her belongings.
He told police how on the morning of his aunt's death he had made a hole in the bottom of a wooden trunk.
In interviews Lee said: 'The chest was locked and I wanted to take valuables from it.
'I didn't want my aunt to know about it so I made a hole. I put my hand in the chest through the hole, but I couldn't find anything.' According to the statements, Lee told officers he grabbed an instrument to hit his aunt to stop her coming closer.