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SCMP Reporter

A MASSAGE parlour boss who thought his business partner was having an affair with his wife stabbed him to death with a 'sacred' knife used to ward off evil spirits, the High Court heard yesterday.

  Wong Kin-sun, 35, knifed Tsui Chi-hoi, 41, through the chest 10 times in a frenzied attack as staff cowered in a nearby room.

  Police discovered Tsui lying in a pool of blood on a staircase landing outside the Wong Dao Finland Palace parlour in Mongkok.

  The stabbing took place just days after Tsui removed knives from the parlour because Wong seemed wound up.

  He was killed with the one knife left out, which had been placed on the shrine altar for protection against evil spirits.

  Prosecutor Caroline Ravenscroft said Wong, also known as Lo Lo, was a co-owner of the Shanghai Street parlour, but Tsui had run the business.

  She said: 'The defendant believed that his wife was having an extramarital affair with his business partner.

  'She had left him and he didn't know her whereabouts. He felt that he was ridiculed wherever he went.

  'Tsui Chi-hoi warned the employees a few days before that Wong was tense.

  'He told them not to upset Wong in any way and to give him anything he wanted and, as a precaution, he hid all the knives in the establishment.'   Ms Ravenscroft said the killing had taken place when the defendant visited the parlour on October 6 last year.

  Wong, who was 'clearly irritable', punched and slapped Tsui after flying into a rage when Tsui suggested they pay the phone bill.

  The defendant then rushed into the room where two masseuses were resting and threatened to 'chop them to death' unless they found him a vegetable knife.

  When he left, the women locked themselves in the room. But they heard the sound of raised voices and Tsui scream out: 'Brother Lo, have mercy on me!'   Ms Ravenscroft said an usher, Ng Tak-yin, had seen the fatal fight as he peeped through the door of another room.

  She said the usher saw Wong grab the knife from the altar and stab Tsui 10 times.

  Wong then ripped off his blood-soaked shirt and ran into the street.

  When police arrived minutes later, they discovered a 20-centimetre knife on one of the steps and a bloody palm print on the main door. Tsui was lying on the third-floor landing.

    Wong denied murdering Tsui, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility. The Crown accepted the plea.

  Two psychiatrists who examined Wong after his arrest concluded he had been suffering from an abnormality of mind due to a brief reactive psychosis.

  In police interviews, the parlour boss said he had not intended to kill Tsui, but had stabbed him on a momentary impulse.

  Mr Justice Duffy adjourned sentencing until November 17 for further psychiatric reports.



'Sacred' knife used in killing