A Hong Kong man on trial for allegedly murdering his live-in girlfriend four years ago has said he thought she was an alien because she did not bear his child.
A High Court jury of four men and three women heard on Thursday that Tang Lung-fai, 56, admitted causing the death of Fok Sin-yee, 38, during a scuffle at their home in Mui Tsz Lam village, Ma On Shan, on or about April 14, 2022.
But the defendant, who ran a private campsite near his home, denied intending to kill his partner or cause her grievous bodily harm during their quarrel over whether she was human.
In his opening address, Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Raymond Cheng Hoi-chung said the couple met in a bar around 2012 and began living together at the single-storey house three years later.
Cheng said an argument on the evening of April 13 that year escalated into a fight the next morning, during which Tang inflicted serious injuries on the deceased.
The defendant made three emergency calls between 6.13am and 6.30am on April 14, saying he had killed his girlfriend and urging police to attend the scene.
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