Hong Kong man found guilty of murdering girlfriend by stabbing her 33 times with chef’s knife on city bus
- Admitting he was a possessive partner, engineer Ng Yan-kin, 26, followed Annie Li, 20, onto the bus, where he unleashed the frenzied attack
- The couple had been fighting over his controlling behaviour in the lead-up to the killing and Li had sought the return of videos and photos of them having sex
A Hong Kong engineer who killed his girlfriend by stabbing her 33 times on a bus three years ago has been found guilty of murder.
A High Court jury of five women and two men on Tuesday returned a unanimous verdict against Ng Yan-kin, 26, after about six hours of deliberations, following a 36-day trial before Madam Justice Audrey Campbell-Moffat.
The judge will sentence him to life in prison in a separate hearing next year, pending possible submissions for the Long-term Prison Sentences Review Board’s consideration of possible remission and commutation.
Ng admitted killing Annie Li Sin-heng, 20, with a newly bought knife on the upper deck of Citybus No 118 five minutes after it left the Island Resort bus terminus in Siu Sai Wan at about 4pm on September 16, 2017.
But he claimed to have no recollection of the frenzied knife attack and argued he was suffering at the time from major depressive disorder and paranoid personality disorder. His lawyers said the conditions would substantially impair his mental responsibility for the killing and the charge should be reduced to manslaughter by reason of diminished capacity.