A Hong Kong appellate court has quashed the murder conviction of a jobless man who allegedly beat his girlfriend to death and hid her body under a mattress seven years ago, ruling that the trial judge had not properly directed the jury to fully consider the alleged perpetrator’s violent personality traits. The Court of Appeal…
A Hong Kong man has admitted killing his mother in a public rental flat four years ago under the delusion that she was a “monster lizard” who had pretended to be his family. Wong Chun-kit, 28, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility, after prosecutors acknowledged he had suffered a relapse…
A 13-year-old girl accused of murdering a mother-of-three in a pre-planned stabbing inflicted more than 140 wounds on the victim, a jury has heard. Jurors were told the teenager had conducted online research before the killing, while 43-year-old Marta Bednarczyk was probably dead before her body was burnt in a fire at a terraced property…