28th October 2026 – (Hong Kong) A police officer who searched the Lung Mei Village flat in the Abby Choi murder trial told the High Court that a hammer recovered there carried no blood or human tissue — but insisted that absence of blood does not mean the tool was uninvolved in any crime.
Socialite Abby Choi is alleged to have been murdered and dismembered by three Kwong family members. Anthony Kwong Kong-kit, 35, a driver and her former brother-in-law; Kwong Kau, 69, retired and her former father-in-law; and Alex Kwong Kong-chi, 32, unemployed and her former husband, are charged with murdering her in Hong Kong on 21st February 2023 and with preventing the lawful burial of her body between the 21st and 23rd. All three deny murder; Anthony and Alex have admitted the burial count, which Kwong Kau denies.
Detective Police Constable Chan Wai-hung, among the first officers into the Tai Po unit, continued his evidence under cross-examination. He said that when five officers entered, he mainly handled the search while the others watched and checked whether anyone else was inside — standard police practice, he told the court.
Trevor Beel, counsel for Anthony, put it that Chan was not the officer who personally found the severed limbs in the fridge, or he would have written in his statement that he himself opened the fridge and discovered two feet. Beel also suggested every officer who went in had searched and touched items in the flat. Chan denied that.
Chan said that after the first entry his superiors told them to leave for a time. Defence counsel suggested the first visit may already have contaminated the scene and that commanders pulled them out to avoid further spoiling of evidence. Chan disagreed, saying he had reported residual limbs in the fridge, that the flat was likely a murder scene, and that he asked for all officers to leave and for the premises to be sealed — which was why superiors so decided. He said he wore gloves on entry, a basic precaution for detectives against disturbing evidence, and that the other officers who went in also wore gloves. Two sets of exhibits were taken: one to the Government Laboratory for DNA analysis, another to the Advanced Technology Section of the Identification Bureau for fingerprints.
Andrew Raffell, for Alex, said Chan had seized a small hammer with no blood or human tissue on it, showing nothing more than an ordinary hammer and no sign it had been used in an assault. Chan disagreed on both points: lack of blood on the hammer, he said, does not mean it was not involved in a crime.
In re-examination, Chan said he wore a mask and gloves when he went in. The case officer told him to search alone; he did not know why, while teammates only observed and watched for anyone still in the unit. Having one officer do the initial search was routine, he said, to stop exhibits being handled repeatedly. When they returned a second time to take evidence, the whole team wore shoe covers, gloves and masks.