Son, friend accused of murdering HK parents
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AN elderly Hong Kong couple were allegedly dismembered by their son and his friend before being salted, cooked and packed into lunchboxes “like barbecued pork,” a court has heard.
The severed heads of 65-year-old Chau Wing-ki and his wife Siu Yuet-yee, 62, were found in March last year, stuffed into two refrigerators in a bloodstained apartment, days after they were reported missing.
The other remains were found in a rubbish bin, cooked and packed into boxes with rice, in an attempt by the duo to hide the crime after they ran out of fridge space.
The couple’s 30-year-old son Henry Chau pleaded not guilty to both counts of murder yesterday, as he and alleged accomplice Tse Chun-kei appeared on the second day of the trial.
Chau on Tuesday pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, while Tse, 36, denied both counts of murder.
Both men have admitted preventing the couple’s lawful burial.
Prosecutors allege that Chau and Tse planned the murder for months, buying knives, fridges, microwaves and a rice cooker.
Chau initially told police his parents had gone to China’s mainland, but later admitted to the murder on an Internet messaging group.
In evidence read to the city’s High Court yesterday, he claimed he planned to mislead the police in order to buy himself some time to say goodbye to friends.
“My murdering partner and I were planning to make it a missing person case and dump the body piece by piece,” he said in a group message.
Chau also called himself a “psychopath” in the messages and said: “I cannot empathise with people’s pain because of my experience from childhood and adolescence.”
He claims to have killed his parents with the help of Tse in the middle of an emotional breakdown, but prosecutors allege that the murder was carefully planned.
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