An elderly father being sued by his doctor son for defamation spoke yesterday of the heart-rending pain of rejection inflicted by the child he "used to love most among my children".
Thoughts of ending his life crossed his mind and he was compelled to seek psychiatric help, but Lam Sing-yin, 72, told the High Court he still loved his son.
The father admits distributing posters near the Lam Tin clinic of his estranged son, Dr Lam Chuen-lung, alleging that the doctor cheated him out of money and property. The posters also claimed the doctor repeated three years of education and did not complete his medical studies until he was 28 years old.
The father says he distributed the posters, which were also left near the schools of the doctor's children, to vent his frustration after his son "framed" him, causing him to be arrested for criminal intimidation on December 29, 2009.
"Now that he has money and luck, he says I harassed him," said the father.
"He framed me. I was chained in the street like a dog," the father said of his arrest. Turning to his son, he continued: "I brought you up and you framed me. How could I face the world? I am a poor man. I feel very pained."