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Gruesome details emerge in trial of security guard accused of killing girlfriend with electric drill

Safdar Husnain, then 27, earlier pleaded not guilty to murder of Andrea Bayr, 25, who was found with drug Ice in her blood

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The court heard that the accused repeatedly said “sorry” after being subdued by police. Photo: Felix Wong
Shirley Zhao

Gruesome details emerged on Tuesday as the High Court heard the case of a security guard accused of murdering his girlfriend with an electric drill at a construction site in Tuen Mun.

The defendant, Safdar Husnain, who was 27 when the incident took place in the early hours of March 29, 2016, had earlier pleaded not guilty.

The deceased, 25-year-old Andrea Bayr, was found to have a hole in the right side of her face, among other injuries, with part of a drill bit protruding from the wound.

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Traces of crystal methamphetamine, also known as Ice, were found at the scene and in the victim’s blood and urine.

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The court heard that police received a report from Husnain’s friend of more than a decade at 2.17am that day and arrived at the construction site near the junction of Tin Hau Road and Hung Cheung Road at 2.28am with the informant, who was waiting near the site.

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