Hong Kong finance boss admits to disposing his mistress’ body in a rubbish trolley outside village
Finance boss tells murder trial he wheeled body from flat and drove around
A Hong Kong finance company director accused of murder claimed a fear of losing his family kept him from admitting to killing his mistress during a six-year period in which he had been “very cowardly” and “very selfish”.
Ivan Chan Man-sum, 44, revealed for the first time on Tuesday in the High Court that he had disposed of Chun Ka-yee’s body, which has never been found, saying he wanted to take his responsibility by sharing the whole story.
The court heard Chan drove around looking for a disposal site after he killed Chun, 33, whom he affectionately called “KK”, and wheeled her out of Amoy Gardens in Kowloon Bay in a nylon bag on October 7, 2011.
“I was very scared,” he told the jury on his second day of testimony. “I just drove about because I didn’t know where I could place the corpse.”
He refuelled his car at a service station in Tseung Kwan O and drove to a housing estate, thinking he could dispose of the body at its rubbish collection point. But he changed his mind upon seeing there were many people working on site, and drove on.
I just drove about because I didn’t know where I could place the corpse
Later he found large rubbish trolleys parked outside a village located between Tseung Kwan O and Sai Kung and decided that was to be the spot.
