2nd November 2026 – (Hong Kong) High Court jurors in the Abby Choi murder trial today watched closed-circuit footage from the morning and afternoon of 21st February 2023, tracing how the socialite showed a Kadoorie Hill flat to visitors while two of the defendants met at a Mong Kok coffee shop.
Abby Choi Tin-fung is alleged to have been murdered that day. In the dock are her former brother-in-law Anthony Kwong Kong-kit, 35, a driver; her former father-in-law Kwong Kau, 69, retired; and her former husband Alex Kwong Kong-chi, 32, who is unemployed. Each faces a murder count said to have been committed in Hong Kong on 21st February 2023, and a charge of preventing the lawful burial of her body between 21st and 23rd February. The judge has told the jury that all three deny murder but have each admitted the burial offence. The case is listed as HCCC 198/2025.
The clips played today showed the three Kwongs going about separate errands that morning. Anthony Kwong left Sheung Man Court at about 7am, collected Ms Choi’s children by car and then went to the Kadoorie Hill unit. Kwong Kau also left home and bought two China Mobile monthly plans. Prosecutors say those contracts were later found on a table at a Lung Mei village flat in Tai Po, and that one of the SIM cards was recovered from Alex Kwong’s phone when he was arrested. Kwong Kau then drove a VY-plated seven-seater — a private car Alex Kwong had borrowed from a friend’s elder brother — to the Lung Mei address.
Anthony Kwong stayed for a time at Kadoorie Hill before leaving at about noon for the Kowloon Tong detached house where Ms Choi lived. After his elder brother had gone, Alex Kwong left the Kadoorie Hill flat alone, carrying a white plastic bag. Only then did Ms Choi arrive in an AA-plated seven-seater driven by Anthony Kwong. Entering the lobby she wore a white long-sleeved top and white trousers and carried a pink handbag.
Having dropped her at the block, Anthony Kwong drove on to MOKO (New Century Plaza) in Mong Kok and joined Alex Kwong at a Starbucks. Footage of their meeting shows Anthony Kwong repeatedly tapping his foot and gesturing with both hands, while Alex Kwong demonstrated movements and tilted his head. Prosecutors later pointed jurors to car-park images in which the boot of the AA-plated seven-seater was opened; when Alex Kwong left the mall, the white plastic bag was no longer in his hands.
Around 1pm, an estate agent and a female viewer reached the Kadoorie Hill flat. Ms Choi told them the building had six floors, showed them into rooms and spoke about the walls and lighting, saying the soundproofing was good. When the visitor remarked that a lamp looked expensive, Ms Choi replied that the piece was costly because it had been shipped whole from Italy and looked striking when lit for guests. She added that the tables and, indeed, the whole flat were Italian, and that sitting on the sofa one could charge a phone — “anyway it looks nice, even for your own use”.
About 2pm, she spoke with her husband, Alex Tam Fong-chun — a recording already played earlier in the trial — and then went out. The judge briefly asked what relevance the viewing footage had. The prosecution answered that it showed Ms Choi actively marketing her unit. For the jury, the day’s exhibits stitch together a disappearance-day timeline of SIM purchases, Lung Mei travel, a cafe meeting with gestures and a missing bag, and a socialite still trying to sell a luxury flat hours before she vanished.