Hong Kong man who stabbed girlfriend 33 times in frenzied knife attack jailed for life after being found guilty of murder
- Judge says Kenny Ng poses ‘significant risk’ to community
- Victim Annie Li died in hospital after being attacked on bus on her way to work in September 2017
A Hong Kong engineer who murdered his girlfriend by stabbing her 33 times on a bus in 2017 has been jailed for life.
Passing sentence at the High Court on Thursday, Madam Justice Audrey Campbell-Moffat said Kenny Ng Yan-kin posed a “significant risk” to the community, as shown by his “carefully envisaged” attack on Annie Li Sin-heng with a 20cm steel knife he bought specifically for the killing.
While the 26-year-old claimed he had suffered from a host of mental ailments, the judge cited the jury’s guilty verdict last December in finding him a normal man who required no psychiatric attention.
Despite Ng receiving continuous counselling while behind bars, the judge expressed doubt as to whether it would be safe to release him on parole, saying it remained “a matter of question” in the future.
Last year’s 36-day trial centred on Ng’s frenzied knife attack on his 20-year-old girlfriend on the upper deck of a Citybus route No 118 bus in Siu Sai Wan at about 4pm on September 16, 2017.