Gang found guilty of killing woman, 18, after 10-hour torture session (SCMP) 08月 04日 星期五 00:03AM
A gang of six who beat an 18-year-old woman to death with a dumb-bell, a rolling pin and a chair were found guilty of manslaughter yesterday.
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A 15-year-old boy was acquitted of manslaughter by the nine-member jury after a hearing that lasted 70 days.
The Court of First Instance had heard that Ivy Lau Mei-ying, who weighed 100kg, was beaten for more than 10 hours in a flat in Lei On Court, Kwun Tong, on July 14 to 15, 2004.
This came three days after an attack during which Lau begged her tormentors for time to improve her "domineering character".
On July 16, the morning after her death, Lau's body was disfigured by corrosive acid, placed in a box and dumped on a hillside in Kwun Tong.
To Chun-yue, 23, Ng Ngo-hin, 20, Wong King-wai, 19, Poon Ho-wai, 17, Lo Kar-ning, 17, and Lam Wai-sai, 16, were acquitted of murder, but convicted of manslaughter.
To, Wong, Poon, Lam, Aaron Li Ngai-long, 17, and Ngan Ho-tim, 16, were also found guilty of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm on Lau in the earlier attack, but they were acquitted of a higher charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Li was convicted on one count of preventing the lawful burial of Lau's corpse.
During the trial the court was told Lau had been living in the Lei On Court flat with Lo and Lo's elder sister since the middle of June 2004 after she befriended the group.
According to the testimony of Lau's mother, Lim Kon-keow, Lau moved to the flat to carry out a "hellish" weight-loss programme in the hope of improving her chances of finding a job. But criticism about Lau's "domineering" personality among the group culminated in a campaign of sexual harassment and torture that led to her death.
Ms Lim told the court that she last saw her daughter in early July when Lau returned home for a bowl of soup, adding that she had noticed several bruises and pinch marks on her daughter's face.
When she was called to the mortuary on July 22, she was unable to recognise her daughter. "I could not identify my daughter. Her face, half of it, was damaged," Ms Lim told the court. The court heard that the box in which Lau's body was placed was discovered by a cleaning worker by a ditch on the Kwun Tong hillside on July 22.
Mrs Justice Verina Bokhary adjourned the case to August 23 for mitigation, pending reports on each of the defendants.