28th October 2026 – (Hong Kong) Defence lawyers in the Abby Choi murder trial today accused police of risking contamination at the Tai Po village flat before the scene was sealed, as the High Court also heard that fingerprints of the three Kwong defendants on a fridge, chainsaw manuals and other exhibits are not in dispute.
The case entered its 25th day of hearing. Abby Choi, the 28-year-old socialite also known as Choi Tin-fung, was allegedly killed and dismembered in February 2023. Her former husband Alex Kwong Kong-chi, former father-in-law Kwong Kau and former brother-in-law Anthony Kwong Kong-kit each face one count of murder and one of preventing the lawful burial of a corpse. All three deny murder; Anthony and Alex have admitted the burial offence while Kwong Kau denies it. The prosecutor says the killing took place on 21st February 2023 in the ground-floor unit of a village house at 56B Lung Mei Village, Ting Kok Road, Tai Po.
Exhibits officer Chan Wai-hung, who searched the Lung Mei flat, faced further cross-examination. Counsel put it that five officers forced entry in the first stage without protective suits, so the unit was not sterile and exhibits may have been tainted. Chan disagreed. He said all five wore gloves and masks before going in, and that after severed limbs were found everyone was ordered out and the scene sealed. He maintained he alone conducted the initial search and had already been designated the exhibits officer before the door was broken.
Defence counsel also challenged his handling of a hammer picked up from the floor, arguing that because it showed no blood, bone or human tissue he never treated it as a possible crime weapon. Chan rejected that. Absence of visible blood on the surface, he said, did not mean the hammer was unconnected with the case. He insisted he had not moved exhibits for photography and bagged the hammer, cling film and black adhesive tape separately after shooting them.
Fingerprint officer Leung Man-tat and fingerprint expert Law Pui-kei later gave evidence. The prosecutor read admitted facts setting out where the Kwongs’ prints were found. Anthony’s fingerprints were lifted from the fridge, adhesive tape, plastic bags, blue-and-white striped canvas in the master bedroom, and the English-language chainsaw instruction booklet and maintenance pamphlet. Kwong Kau’s fingerprints or palm prints were found on newspapers, cardboard near a living-room window and the Chinese chainsaw manual. Alex’s fingerprint was on a China Mobile telecommunications service contract. The defence said those fingerprint findings were not contested.
The prosecutor then called Lam Chun, formerly a West Kowloon Regional Crime Unit detective constable and now a sergeant, who arrested Alex on 25th February 2023. At midday, he was sent to stake out Tung Chung New Development Pier. Alex arrived in a black cap, blue jacket and black trousers. When Lam identified himself as a police officer, Alex turned to flee; officers subdued him after a violent struggle in which his right face was scraped. Lam arrested him for murder on the spot. After arrest Alex signed a consent form allowing buccal swabs and saliva samples for DNA comparison. The trial continues.
