Man raped and beat married lover after calling her to go shopping, Hong Kong’s High Court told
- Chan Kwok-ching, 32, pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape and one of unlawful detention
- Woman hid on rooftop for hours after alleged attack because she feared she would meet defendant as she made her escape
A restaurant worker locked up his married lover, beat and then raped her after arranging to go shopping with her, a Hong Kong court heard on Monday.
After the attack, the 37-year-old woman fled and hid on the roof of defendant Chan Kwok-ching’s residential building for hours because she feared she might run into him again while making her escape, prosecutors told the High Court on the first day of his trial.
Chan, 32, pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape and one of unlawful detention for the alleged attack on the woman, referred to as X in court, in Mong Kok in February last year.
Prosecutors told a jury of four women and three men that Chan met X when they both worked at the same restaurant between 2013 and 2014. X moved to another workplace but they remained lovers, although she was married, the court heard.
Testifying in court, X revealed she had lived together with Chan and had a daughter with him. But she left him after he started to beat her.
On February 4 last year, X received a phone call from Chan just before she went to work. He asked her to meet him in Wong Tai Sin to go shopping, but after they met at 1.30pm he changed his plans and invited her to his flat on Tung Choi Street in Mong Kok instead.