A Chinese woman chopped off her former boyfriend’s penis with scissors and then killed him with a hammer after he raped her, a Hong Kong court heard, according to a report Tuesday.
Yeung Ki, 41, on trial in the city, has admitted killing 32-year-old piano teacher Zhou Hui on Boxing Day 2012 but denies murder, the South China Morning Post reported.
Yeung, a Chinese mainlander and Hong Kong resident, killed Zhou after an affair with the married man lasting years, during which he had deserted her while pregnant and borrowed money without paying it back on numerous occasions, it said.
On the night of the killing, Zhou “beat her, pushed her to the floor, and slapped their daughter”, then “forcibly had sex with her”, the High Court heard, according to the newspaper.
Afterwards, she drugged him with soup laced with sleeping pills, cut off his penis and flushed it down the toilet, then when he was awakened by the pain, beat him to death with “almost uncountable” blows from a hammer, the paper reported the prosecution as saying.
“Yeung Ki has been charged with murder. The trial will last 11 days,” a spokeswoman for the Hong Kong judiciary told AFP.
Zhou had also told Yeung he had nude pictures of her which he would post on the internet unless she gave him HK$200,000 ($25,800) to buy a car, the South China Morning Post reported, citing prosecutors who appeared in court Monday.
After the killing in a tiny public housing flat in Chai Wan, Yeung wrapped the body in a bed sheet and covered it with a mattress, the court heard.
The day after the killing, Yeung took her daughter to a Social Welfare Department centre where she wept and confessed she killed Zhou. “I cut it,” Yeung told a social worker. “I think it was cruel. I did not mean it.”
In the interview played in court, the twice-married Yeung said she met Zhou, a piano teacher, in Shenzhen in 2006 after she divorced her ex-husband, a Hong Kong resident, the year before.
They developed a relationship during which she lent him a total of HK$158,000 that he never paid back. After the last loan of HK$130,000 in 2007, she lost contact with him. Already pregnant, she traced him on the mainland and discovered he was married.
Zhou asked her to abort the child, but she refused. They ceased contact until 2012, when Zhou called her saying he missed her and visited her several times.
On December 24, 2012, the court heard, Zhou came to Hong Kong to visit Yeung.
The trial continues before Mr Justice Peter Line.
-AFP and South China Morning Post
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