蔡天凤谋杀案香港高院开审：邝家三父子否认谋杀 丈夫谭方骏连日作证
香港——2023年震惊香港以至全球华人社会的名媛蔡天凤遇害案，时隔三年多，于今年9月21日在香港高等法院正式开审。案件编号HCCC 198/2025，由暂委法官祁彥輝（Brian Keith）主审、九人陪审团聆讯，预计审期约45天。蔡天凤的前夫邝港智（32岁）、前家翁邝球（69岁）及前夫兄长邝港杰（35岁）同被控于2023年2月21日在大埔龙尾村一村屋内谋杀蔡天凤，并被控阻止合法埋葬其尸体，三人均否认谋杀罪；邝港杰、邝港智已承认阻止合法埋葬尸体罪，邝球则否认全部控罪。审讯至10月15日踏入第17天，蔡天凤的丈夫谭方骏连日出庭作证，交代加多利山豪宅产权、澳门赌债及案发当日的细节；10月16日，谭方骏继续接受辩方盘问，其证供进入尾声。
谭方骏10月14日开始作证。他忆述案发当日，即2023年2月21日，早上他离家上班时蔡天凤仍在睡；下午2时02分，蔡发语音讯息问他是否忙碌，2时06分回复「OK」后便再无回音。他其后多次致电、发讯均无回应，其中下午4时13分至4时18分，讯息一度显示已送达蔡的手机，之后再无讯号。他透过手机定位功能，发现蔡的讯号曾出现在大埔一带。当晚，他到加多利山单位，发现邝港智与邝港智的母亲李瑞香在单位内；他供称，邝家众人对蔡失踪表现得异常冷静。晚上他与邝港杰同乘一车前往大埔，途中接到警方电话，一名女警在电话中指警方「极度怀疑」邝家一家，包括正坐在他身旁的邝港杰，并着他设法离开邝港杰、返回大埔与警方会合。谭方骏在庭上说，如今回想起来，「一切都好恐怖」。
10月15日，即审讯第17天，三名被告的律师轮流盘问谭方骏。邝港杰的代表律师向他展示多张照片，包括蔡天凤与邝港杰一同出席生日会、聚会的合照及两人的自拍照，指邝港杰没有任何理由伤害蔡天凤；谭方骏确认两人当时没有「大争拗」、当时看不出邝港杰有伤害蔡的理由，但补充说，如今知道邝港杰正面对严重的谋杀控罪，感受已完全不同。谭方骏又供称，他是在2022年一次激烈争执当晚，才从蔡天凤口中得知，加多利山单位是蔡出资购买、并登记在邝球名下；他当时大为震惊，即表示那是「家庭财产」，必须尽快取回。他说，计划出售单位不只是为了子女转校，也因为邝家变得「愈来愈恐怖」。他忆述2022年的一次家庭冲突中，邝球曾扑向蔡天凤，当时「完全被愤怒笼罩、无法控制自己」，那是他所讲述最激烈的一次冲突。
10月16日，谭方骏作证时续披露一笔澳门赌债。他供称，自己曾在澳门太阳城赌场借下500万港元赌博，蔡天凤为该笔借款作保，事后有人上门追讨；他的父亲谭泽均最终出资约600万港元了结此事。据谭方骏供称，其中约100万港元并非利息，而是邝球声称必须支付的「茶钱」，用以打点关系、找出真正的债权人；谭父曾开出一张约590万港元的支票予邝球，滋扰此后停止。
在此之前，控方传召蔡天凤的母亲张燕花作证，她由10月5日开始作供，至10月12日完成。张燕花供称，蔡天凤是她与前夫所生，她在蔡三岁时改嫁蔡楚生，蔡随继父姓蔡，一家人其后靠在内地经营生意致富。她指女儿一生先后投入约7,000万港元供养和支持邝家，却「有入无出」。辩方盘问时质疑她为迁就控方案情而修剪证供，并指邝港智曾代她偿还赌债；张燕花一一否认，强调一直是她家在出钱，她曾亲自到内地查看，邝港智只是花她女儿的钱。庭上播放案发当日加多利山单位内的闭路电视片段时，张燕花一度情绪崩溃，控方随即暂停播放。
控方案情在9月30日由律政司外聘的主控官、资深大律师郭莎乐（Charlotte Draycott）发表开案陈词时全面披露。控方指，案件的根源是金钱：蔡天凤出身富裕之家，邝家家境普通。蔡在2019年购入何文田加多利山Kadooria一个单位，合约价7,280万港元，扣除发展商回赠后实际成交价约6,060万港元，供她与邝港智所生的一对子女及邝家居住；为节省印花税，单位登记在邝球名下。控方指，蔡天凤才是实际出资人。
控方指，2022年6月，蔡天凤因次女将转读位于屯门的哈罗香港国际学校，打算出售加多利山单位、在屯门另购物业安置邝家，要求邝球签署出售授权，遭邝球强烈反对并拒绝签署。2022年7月一次会面中，邝球一度想袭击蔡天凤，被谭方骏阻止。同年9月，邝球搬出加多利山单位，与邝港杰同住；经过五个月纠缠，邝球最终在11月签署授权书。控方指，蔡天凤担心授权被撤销，急于卖楼，甚至不惜降低售价、提高地产经纪佣金；邝球则担心卖楼后自己一无所有，遂与两名儿子策划杀害蔡天凤。
控方指，三父子自2023年2月初起分工部署：2月2日，邝球前往大埔龙尾村村屋单位「踩点」，两日后以月租1万港元租下单位，租约两年；其后数周，三人分批购买绞肉机、电锯、锯片、大型汤煲、木砧板、牛肉刀、胶箱、密封袋、防滑手套、绳索以及一把一磅重的锤子等物；2月17日，邝球买入一部二手雪柜；2月18日，邝球另行租下九龙站凯旋门一个单位，准备案发后安置邝港智，月租2.2万港元。控方在庭上展示涉案锤子，指锤柄验出邝港智的DNA，法医检验指蔡天凤头骨的伤痕由钝器造成、形状与锤子吻合；主控形容有关击打「凶残」。陪审员曾在法官指示下戴上手套，亲手传阅该锤子。
控方指，案发当日中午，邝港智与邝港杰在旺角新世纪广场一间星巴克咖啡店会面，闭路电视拍到邝港杰双手做出按压动作、右臂上下挥动。控方指，邝港杰是在向邝港智示范如何把蔡天凤的头按下去。当日下午，任蔡天凤私人司机的邝港杰接载蔡前往学校接其次女放学，邝港智中途上车；控方指，蔡天凤在车内遭到锤击，其间她与李瑞香的讯息往来在下午2时44分中断。蔡的遗体其后被运入龙尾村单位处理；控方指，将遗骸烹煮是为了令其难以辨认并掩盖气味，并非为了食用。
辩方立场方面，三名被告均否认谋杀。在盘问中，邝球一方的律师提出，邝球曾为购入加多利山单位支付一半价钱，蔡天凤借他人名义登记以避印花税的做法本身可能违法，并指邝球从未威胁蔡家；邝港杰一方的律师则指，邝港杰没有伤害蔡天凤的理由。张燕花对辩方的说法一一否认，并要求对方提出证据。
全案的人物与金钱关系，要追溯到十多年前。蔡天凤1994年出生于海南，五岁时随家人移居香港。母亲张燕花改嫁蔡楚生后，家中在内地经营建筑相关生意致富。蔡天凤长大后任职模特儿及社交名媛，社交平台Instagram有约14万名追随者，经常出席巴黎时装周等国际时尚活动；2023年2月13日，即她遇害前八天，她还登上时尚杂志《L'Officiel》摩纳哥版封面。她的个人身家据报道约3亿港元。
蔡天凤与邝港智、谭方骏均为弘爵国际学校的中学同学。她15岁时认识邝港智，18岁时与邝注册结婚，当时两人仍在就学，婚后育有一子一女。这段婚姻其后因财政纠纷转差，两人于2015年分居；邝港智其后因涉及刑事案件潜逃内地，蔡天凤未能办妥离婚手续。她其后与谭方骏相恋，两人于2016年12月举行婚礼，但没有正式注册结婚，被视为事实婚姻，两人再育有一子一女。蔡天凤的四个子女中，与邝港智所生的长子及次女其后由邝家协助照顾，居于红磡维港·星岸，配有家佣，蔡几乎每天前往探望。
分居之后，蔡天凤持续在经济上供养邝家。控方指，2020年至2022年间，她曾将2,500万港元存入一个银行账户供邝港智使用，到她遇害时，账户只余下约140万港元。她曾出资协助邝港杰创业——由邝港杰与蔡、谭二人合资的鸡蛋仔店于2023年1月倒闭——其后她聘请邝港杰担任私人司机。据张燕花供称，除了加多利山单位，蔡天凤在海南购置的物业、一辆劳斯莱斯及一辆黑色七人车，也登记在邝球名下。邝港智多年来没有固定职业，生活主要依赖蔡家支持。邝球则曾任职警队侦缉警长，据传媒报道，他于2005年牵涉一宗强奸指控后自行辞职，当时未被刑事追究。
加多利山单位成为全案的引爆点。蔡天凤以邝球「首次置业」的名义登记物业，把印花税率由标准的15%降至4.25%，节省约780万港元。张燕花在庭上强调，单位只是借邝球之名持有，并非赠予，蔡天凤才是实益业主。蔡天凤遇害后，张燕花于2023年3月入禀高等法院，要求法庭确认蔡天凤是单位的实益拥有人，并禁止邝球处置该单位；相关遗产与业权诉讼至今仍在进行。
案发与拘捕经过方面，2023年2月21日，蔡天凤原定前往香港科学园一带接次女放学，但没有出现。当晚她的家人报警，西九龙总区重案组接手调查。警方翻查闭路电视及涉案车辆的定位纪录后，锁定大埔龙尾村。2月24日，警方在大埔大美督龙尾村一村屋地下单位内发现蔡天凤的部分遗骸——她的双腿藏于雪柜内，单位内另有两个盛载人体组织的汤煲；2月26日，警方在其中一个大汤煲内发现蔡天凤的头颅，头颅右耳后方有一个约6.5厘米乘5.5厘米的破洞，相信是致命伤。蔡天凤的躯干及双手至今未被寻回。警方其后动员逾百名人员，先后到将军澳华人永远坟场储水池一带及打鼓岭新界东北堆填区大规模搜寻，均没有发现。警方形容，涉案单位经刻意布置，案件「经过精心策划」。
拘捕方面，警方于2月24日拘捕邝港杰、邝球及李瑞香；邝港智一度在逃，警方曾悬红200万港元通缉他。2月25日，邝港智在东涌发展码头准备乘快艇离境时被捕，当时他身上有逾50万港元现金，以及数只总值约400万港元的名表。
同案其余涉案人的案件已先后有了结果。李瑞香（63岁）被控一项妨碍司法公正罪，指她在案发后协助儿子潜逃并干扰警方调查。她的案件在区域法院审理，2025年9月30日被裁定罪名成立，同年10月28日被判囚18个月；法官陈广池判刑时指，李瑞香溺爱儿子、协助其逃避追捕。由于李瑞香被还押的时间已超过扣减后须实际服刑的期限，她在判刑当日获释。
游艇租赁公司职员林舜（41岁）及邝港智的友人潘巧贤（29岁）被指合谋协助邝港智乘船经水路离境，各被控一项串谋妨碍司法公正罪。2025年6月16日，九龙城裁判法院裁判官陈志辉裁定两人罪名成立，同年6月27日各被判囚6个月。林舜即时入狱服刑，已于2025年10月初刑满出狱；潘巧贤当庭就定罪及刑期提出上诉，获准保释候审，她的上诉已于2026年5月在高等法院进行聆讯，现正等候裁决。
邝球的情妇伍志荣（47岁）于2023年2月26日在尖沙咀被捕。据报道，她有份租用龙尾村涉案单位，其后另行租用九龙站凯旋门一个单位，用作窝藏邝港智。她被捕后获准保释候查，最终没有被起诉。
邝港智本人在主案之外，还涉及一宗旧案：他于2013年至2015年间涉及多宗窃取及诈骗金饰的案件，涉案金额达数百万港元，其后弃保潜逃多年。2024年6月19日，他在区域法院承认6项盗窃罪及1项没有按照法庭指定归押罪，被判囚42个月。
主案的法律进程历时三年多。2023年2月27日，邝家三父子及李瑞香在九龙城裁判法院首次提堂；2023年12月20日，三父子被加控阻止合法埋葬尸体罪。案件经过多次提讯后，于2025年6月9日完成交付高等法院审理的程序，三人自被捕以来一直还押。2026年9月21日审讯展开时，法官宣布，为保护蔡天凤的四名子女，庭审提及他们时须以代号代替，传媒不得报道他们的姓名、住址或任何可识别其身份的资料。9月24日，法庭从候选名单中选出由7男2女组成的首个陪审团；其后一名陪审员以健康理由申请退出，法官考虑到当时尚未听取任何证供，决定解散整个陪审团。9月30日，法庭重新选出由8男1女组成的陪审团，控方同日下午发表开案陈词。
接下来，谭方骏作证完毕后，控方将继续传召证人，包括负责调查的警员及法医等专家证人，其后将轮到辩方陈案，三名被告会否出庭自辩，是审讯另一焦点。按照约45天的审期推算，审讯预计持续至今年11月底至12月，陪审团的裁决将是全案最关键的节点。在香港，谋杀罪名成立的强制刑罚是终身监禁。蔡天凤的丧礼已于2023年6月在香港大围宝福纪念馆举行，遗体其后移送大屿山宝莲禅寺火化。
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Abby Choi Murder Trial Opens in Hong Kong High Court: Three Kwong Men Deny Murder as Husband Chris Tam Testifies
HONG KONG — The murder of socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung, a case that shocked Hong Kong and Chinese communities around the world in 2023, finally went to trial at Hong Kong's High Court on September 21, 2026, more than three years after her death. In case HCCC 198/2025, heard by Deputy High Court Judge Brian Keith (祁彥輝) with a nine-member jury over an expected 45 days, Choi's former husband Alex Kwong Kong-chi, 32, her former father-in-law Kwong Kau, 69, and her former brother-in-law Anthony Kwong Kong-kit, 35, are charged with murdering Choi on February 21, 2023, at a village house in Lung Mei Village, Tai Po, and with preventing the lawful burial of her body. All three deny murder; the two brothers have admitted the burial charge, while Kwong Kau denies both charges. On October 15, the 17th day of the trial, Choi's husband Chris Tam Fong-chun continued giving evidence, testifying about the Kadoorie Hill flat, a Macao gambling debt and the day Choi vanished. On October 16, Tam remained under cross-examination by defence counsel as his evidence drew to a close.
Tam began testifying on October 14. He recalled that on February 21, 2023, Choi was still asleep when he left home for work in the morning. At 2:02 p.m. she sent him a voice message asking whether he was busy, and replied "OK" at 2:06 p.m.; after that, she sent nothing more. His later calls and messages went unanswered, although between 4:13 p.m. and 4:18 p.m. his messages briefly showed as delivered to her phone before the signal vanished again. Using a location-sharing app, he saw that Choi's phone had appeared in the Tai Po area. That evening he went to the Kadoorie Hill flat and found Alex Kwong and Alex's mother, Jenny Li Sui-heung, inside; he told the court the Kwong family seemed strangely calm about Choi's disappearance. Later that night, as Anthony Kwong drove him toward Tai Po — Anthony having said Choi had got out of the car there — Tam received a call from a police officer while sitting beside Anthony. The officer told him the police "extremely suspected" the whole Kwong family, including the man sitting next to him, and urged him to get away from Anthony and return to Tai Po to meet the police. Looking back now, Tam told the court, "everything is actually quite terrifying."
On October 15, the trial's 17th day, counsel for the three defendants took turns cross-examining Tam. Anthony Kwong's lawyer showed him photographs of Choi and Anthony together at birthday gatherings and parties, as well as selfies of the two, arguing that Anthony had no reason to harm Choi. Tam agreed that the two had had no major quarrel and that, at the time, he saw no reason for Anthony to hurt her — but added that his feelings are entirely different now that Anthony faces a grave murder charge. Tam also testified that he learned only on the night of a fierce row in 2022, from Choi herself, that the Kadoorie Hill flat had been paid for by Choi and registered in Kwong Kau's name. He said he was shocked and told her at once that it was "family property" and had to be reclaimed as soon as possible. The plan to sell the flat, he said, was not simply about the children's schooling; it was also because the Kwongs had grown "increasingly terrifying". He recalled a family confrontation in 2022 in which Kwong Kau lunged at Choi, "completely covered by rage" and "could not control himself" — the fiercest clash he described.
On October 16, Tam disclosed further details of a Macao gambling debt. He testified that he had borrowed HK$5 million to gamble at the Suncity casino in Macao, that Choi had guaranteed the loan, and that debt collectors later came calling. His father, Tam Chuk-kwan, ultimately paid about HK$6 million to settle the matter. According to Tam, roughly HK$1 million of that sum was not interest but a "gratuity" that Kwong Kau said had to be paid to smooth the way and identify the true creditors; his father wrote Kwong Kau a cheque for about HK$5.9 million, after which the harassment stopped.
Earlier, the prosecution called Choi's mother, Cheung Yin-fa, who testified from October 5 and completed her evidence on October 12. Cheung said Choi was her daughter by her first husband; she remarried Tsoi Cho-san when Choi was three, Choi took her stepfather's surname, and the family later made its fortune in businesses on the mainland. She said her daughter had poured some HK$70 million into supporting the Kwong family over the years, with nothing coming back. Under cross-examination, defence counsel suggested she had trimmed her testimony to suit the prosecution and that Alex Kwong had repaid gambling debts for her; Cheung denied both, insisting her family had always been the one paying, and that when she went to the mainland herself she found Alex doing nothing but spending her daughter's money. When CCTV footage from inside the Kadoorie Hill flat on the day Choi disappeared was played in court, Cheung broke down, and the prosecution paused the footage.
The prosecution case was set out on September 30 by Charlotte Draycott, the Senior Counsel engaged by the Department of Justice to lead the prosecution. She told the jury the root of the case was money: Choi came from a wealthy family, while the Kwongs were not well off. In 2019 Choi bought a flat at Kadooria on Kadoorie Hill in Ho Man Tin at a contract price of HK$72.8 million — an effective price of about HK$60.6 million after the developer's rebate — for her two children by Alex Kwong and the Kwong family to live in. To save stamp duty, the flat was registered in Kwong Kau's name. The prosecution says Choi was the true purchaser.
According to the prosecution, in June 2022 Choi, whose younger daughter was about to transfer to Harrow International School Hong Kong in Tuen Mun, planned to sell the Kadoorie Hill flat and buy another property in Tuen Mun for the Kwongs, and asked Kwong Kau to sign an authorisation for the sale. Kwong Kau strongly objected and refused to sign. At a meeting in July 2022, Kwong Kau moved to attack Choi and was stopped by Tam. In September 2022 Kwong Kau moved out of the flat to live with Anthony. After five months of wrangling, he finally signed the authorisation in November. The prosecution says Choi, fearing he might revoke it, pressed ahead with the sale, even lowering the asking price and raising the agent's commission, while Kwong Kau, afraid the sale would leave him with nothing, plotted with his two sons to kill her.
The prosecution alleges the three men prepared in division of labour from early February 2023. On February 2, Kwong Kau scouted a village house unit in Lung Mei Village, Tai Po, and rented it two days later at HK$10,000 a month on a two-year lease. Over the following weeks the men bought a meat grinder, an electric saw and blades, a large soup pot, a wooden chopping board, beef knives, storage boxes, sealing bags, non-slip gloves, ropes and a one-pound hammer. On February 17, Kwong Kau bought a second-hand refrigerator; on February 18, he rented a flat at The Arch above Kowloon Station, at HK$22,000 a month, to hide Alex Kwong after the killing. The prosecution produced the alleged hammer in court, saying Alex's DNA was found on its handle and that forensic examination showed the wounds to Choi's skull were caused by a blunt instrument whose shape matched the hammer; the blows, the prosecutor said, were "savage". At the judge's direction, jurors put on gloves and handled the hammer themselves.
The prosecution says that at noon on the day of the killing, Alex and Anthony Kwong met at a Starbucks in Grand Century Place in Mong Kok, where CCTV captured Anthony making a pressing-down motion with both hands and swinging his right arm up and down. The prosecution says Anthony was demonstrating to Alex how to pull Choi's head down. That afternoon, Anthony — Choi's personal driver — picked Choi up to take her to collect her younger daughter from school, and Alex got into the car along the way. The prosecution alleges Choi was struck with the hammer inside the car; her message exchanges with Jenny Li stopped at 2:44 p.m. Her body was then taken to the Lung Mei Village house to be disposed of. The prosecution says the remains were cooked to make them unidentifiable and to mask the smell, not for consumption.
For the defence, all three men deny murder. In cross-examination, counsel for Kwong Kau put it to witnesses that Kwong Kau had paid half the purchase price of the Kadoorie Hill flat, that Choi's use of a nominee to hold the title in order to avoid stamp duty might itself have been unlawful, and that Kwong Kau had never threatened Choi's family. Counsel for Anthony Kwong argued that Anthony had no reason to harm Choi. Cheung Yin-fa rejected the defence suggestions and demanded they produce proof.
The personal and financial history behind the case stretches back more than a decade. Abby Choi was born in Hainan in 1994 and moved to Hong Kong with her family at the age of five. After her mother remarried Tsoi Cho-san, the family built its wealth in construction-related businesses on the mainland. Choi became a model and socialite with about 140,000 followers on Instagram, a regular at Paris Fashion Week and other international fashion events; on February 13, 2023, eight days before her death, she appeared on the cover of the Monaco edition of L'Officiel magazine. Her personal fortune was reported to be about HK$300 million.
Choi, Alex Kwong and Chris Tam were all schoolmates at Concordia International School. She met Alex at 15 and married him at 18, while both were still at school; they had a son and a daughter. The marriage deteriorated over financial disputes and the couple separated in 2015. Alex later became involved in criminal cases and absconded to the mainland, so Choi was never able to complete divorce proceedings against him. She subsequently fell in love with Tam; the two held a wedding ceremony in December 2016 but never legally registered the marriage, which is treated as a de facto marriage, and they had two more children. Of Choi's four children, the elder son and younger daughter she had with Alex were afterwards cared for with the Kwongs' help, living at Harbour Place in Hung Hom with a domestic helper, and Choi visited them almost every day.
After the separation, Choi continued to bankroll the Kwong family. The prosecution says that between 2020 and 2022 she placed HK$25 million into a bank account for Alex Kwong's use, and that by the time of her death only about HK$1.4 million remained. She funded a business venture for Anthony Kwong — an egg-waffle shop co-owned by Anthony, Choi and Tam that closed in January 2023 — and afterwards employed Anthony as her personal driver. According to Cheung's testimony, a property Choi bought in Hainan, a Rolls-Royce and a black seven-seater car were also registered in Kwong Kau's name. Alex Kwong had no regular job for years and lived mainly on the Choi family's support. Kwong Kau is a former police detective sergeant; according to media reports, he resigned from the force in 2005 after being implicated in a rape allegation and was not criminally prosecuted at the time.
The Kadoorie Hill flat became the flashpoint of the case. By registering the property in Kwong Kau's name as a first-time buyer, the stamp duty rate fell from the standard 15 per cent to 4.25 per cent, saving about HK$7.8 million. Cheung testified that the flat was merely held in Kwong Kau's name and was never a gift, and that Choi was its beneficial owner. After Choi's death, Cheung applied to the High Court in March 2023 for a declaration that Choi was the beneficial owner of the flat and for an injunction restraining Kwong Kau from dealing with it; the related estate and ownership proceedings are still ongoing.
As to the killing and the arrests: on February 21, 2023, Choi was due to collect her younger daughter from a school in the Hong Kong Science Park area but never arrived. Her family reported her missing that night, and the Regional Crime Unit of Kowloon West took over the investigation. Using CCTV footage and the positioning records of the car involved, police traced the case to Lung Mei Village in Tai Po. On February 24, police found part of Choi's remains in a ground-floor village house unit at Lung Mei, Tai Po — her legs were inside a refrigerator, and the unit contained two soup pots holding human tissue. On February 26, police found Choi's skull in one of the large pots; there was a hole measuring about 6.5 cm by 5.5 cm at the back of the right side of the skull, believed to be the fatal wound. Choi's torso and hands have never been recovered. Police later deployed more than a hundred officers to large-scale searches around a catchment pool at the Chinese Permanent Cemetery in Tseung Kwan O and at the North East New Territories Landfill in Ta Kwu Ling, without result. Police described the village house unit as having been deliberately prepared, and the killing as "well-planned and premeditated".
Police arrested Anthony Kwong, Kwong Kau and Jenny Li on February 24. Alex Kwong was still at large, and police offered a HK$2 million reward for him. On February 25, Alex was arrested at the Tung Chung Development Pier as he was about to flee Hong Kong by speedboat, carrying more than HK$500,000 in cash and several luxury watches worth about HK$4 million in total.
The cases of the other defendants have since been concluded one by one. Jenny Li Sui-heung, 63, was charged with perverting the course of justice, accused of helping her son escape and interfering with the police investigation after the killing. Her case was heard in the District Court: she was convicted on September 30, 2025, and sentenced on October 28, 2025, to 18 months' imprisonment. Sentencing her, Judge Stanley Chan Kwong-chi said Li had doted on her son and helped him evade arrest. Because the time Li had already spent on remand exceeded the term she was actually required to serve after remission, she was released on the day of sentencing.
Lam Shun, 41, an employee of a yacht rental company, and Pun Hau-yin, 29, a friend of Alex Kwong, were each charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over allegedly arranging for Alex to leave Hong Kong by boat. On June 16, 2025, Magistrate Philip Chan Chee-fai at Kowloon City Magistrates' Court convicted both of them, and on June 27, 2025, each was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Lam began serving his sentence immediately and was released in early October 2025 after completing it. Pun appealed against both conviction and sentence in court and was granted bail pending appeal; her appeal was heard in the High Court in May 2026 and judgment is awaited.
Wu Zhi-rong, 47, Kwong Kau's mistress, was arrested in Tsim Sha Tsui on February 26, 2023. She was reported to have had a part in renting the Lung Mei Village unit and to have rented the flat at The Arch above Kowloon Station to shelter Alex Kwong. She was released on police bail and was ultimately not charged.
Alex Kwong also faced an older case of his own: between 2013 and 2015 he was involved in a series of thefts and frauds involving gold jewellery worth several million Hong Kong dollars, and absconded while on bail for years. On June 19, 2024, he pleaded guilty in the District Court to six counts of theft and one count of failing to surrender to custody as directed, and was sentenced to 42 months' imprisonment.
The main case took more than three years to reach trial. The three Kwong men and Jenny Li first appeared at Kowloon City Magistrates' Court on February 27, 2023. On December 20, 2023, the three men were additionally charged with preventing the lawful burial of a body. After numerous mentions, the case completed committal proceedings for trial in the High Court on June 9, 2025; the three men have been remanded in custody since their arrests. When the trial opened on September 21, 2026, the judge directed that, to protect Choi's four children, they must be referred to by code letters in the proceedings, and that the media must not report their names, addresses or any information that could identify them. On September 24, a first jury of seven men and two women was selected; one juror later applied to withdraw for health reasons, and the judge, noting that no evidence had yet been heard, discharged the entire jury. On September 30, a new jury of eight men and one woman was sworn in, and the prosecution delivered its opening address that afternoon.
Next, after Tam's evidence concludes, the prosecution will continue calling witnesses, including the investigating officers and forensic experts, before the defence presents its case; whether the three defendants will testify in their own defence is another closely watched question. On a 45-day estimate, the trial is expected to run until late November or December this year, and the jury's verdict will be the decisive moment of the case. In Hong Kong, murder carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. Choi's funeral was held at Po Fook Memorial Hall in Tai Wai in June 2023, and her remains were cremated at Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island.
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