Journalist 'should be jailed for contempt'
Producer of video that features businessman's wife ignored order to remove it, he says
The saga over the video of a rich but lonely wife took another twist yesterday when her businessman husband demanded that the journalist who produced the show be sent to jail for contempt.
In a High Court writ, David Chor Ki-Kwong asked for an order that Lorea Solabarrieta be "committed to prison" for contempt of court for failing to comply with a court order to remove The Life of a Hong Kong Tai Tai video from YouTube.
But Solabarrieta, who had not yet received the writ yesterday, told the South China Morning Post that the video was taken offline last year.
"I believe there is foul play," she said, adding that she had made a report to police.
"[We] deny that we put it back online. There is no way that the video is on YouTube, unless somebody has hacked into the account, put the video back and played it," she said.
The legal wrangle stems from the 12-minute video in which Chor's wife describes herself as someone who does not need to work because her wealthy husband looks after her. She buys a lot of luxury items, she adds, to give "face" to her husband.