3rd November 2026 – (Hong Kong) High Court jurors in the Abby Choi Tin-fung murder trial today watched further closed-circuit footage of the Kwong family’s movements on the evening of 21st February 2023, after the socialite had already gone missing, including a late-night exchange that ended with her former husband taking a taxi to The Arch.
The case continues against former brother-in-law Anthony Kwong Kong-kit, 35, a driver; former father-in-law Kwong Kau, 69, retired; and former husband Alex Kwong Kong-chi, 32, who is unemployed. They are each charged with murdering Ms Choi in Hong Kong on 21st February 2023 and with preventing the lawful burial of her body between the 21st and 23rd of that month. The judge has already told the selected jury that all three deny murder but have each admitted the burial offence.
Footage played earlier in the trial showed Ms Choi at about 2pm on the day she disappeared boarding an AA-plated seven-seater driven by Anthony Kwong at Kadoorie Hill, with Alex Kwong later getting into the vehicle on Kite Path. That car and a VY-plated seven-seater driven by Kwong Kau then went to Lung Mei Village. Prosecutors say reflections at the rear of a vehicle appear to show Kwong Kau and Anthony Kwong carrying heavy items into the premises.
Today’s clips resumed after the three men had returned to the Lung Mei unit that afternoon and then left again separately. Anthony Kwong appeared at about 4pm at Tai Po Mega Mall and collected a car from the car park. Alex Kwong was seen at about 5pm buying cigarettes at a shop in Tsim Sha Tsui. Around 7pm Anthony Kwong drove the AA-plated vehicle back to Kadoorie Hill, later left, parked it at a Ming Yat Kui car park and boarded a taxi. Kwong Kau drove the VY-plated seven-seater away from the Lung Mei flat at about 8pm and, at about 10pm, returned there with his elder son.
Just after midnight on 22nd February, while still at the Kadoorie Hill flat, Alex Kwong spoke with his mother, Jenny Li Shui-heung. Audio from the recording, as played to the jury, captured her asking when he would “report” and whether a car was coming to collect him. He replied that it was happening then, that he did not know about a car, and that he had just spoken to someone by phone. Ms Li then said: “Hurry up, the next step may come at once … oh no, I’m so scared …” He left carrying a bag and took a taxi to The Arch. The murder counts remain contested; the admitted burial offences stand as the jury has already been told.
