Yeung Ki, 41, is on trial for murder in Hong Kong’s High Court after killing Zhou Hui, 32, her piano teaching ex-lover, on Boxing Day in 2012
Yeung had met Zhou, a piano teacher, in 2006 after she was divorced from her second husband. They began an affair, during which he borrowed thousands of dollars from her which he never repaid. When Yeung got pregnant in 2007, Zhou took off for the Chinese mainland where her ex-lover married another woman.
In 2012, Zhou called her saying he missed her. He visited her several times. On Boxing Day, Zhou came to her flat and demanded she give him $28,000 so he could buy a new car. He threatened to post naked pictures of her on the internet if she did not give him the money. When she refused, Zhou beat her. He also slapped their 4-year-old daughter. Then Zhou ripped off her clothes and raped Yeung.
After the rape, Yeung fed Zhou some soup which she had laced with a drug. While he was zonked out, Yeung took some scissors and chopped off his yingyang, which she flushed down the john. When Zhou awoke in pain, he attacked Yeung. She grabbed a hammer and rang his bell with an 'almost uncountable' number of blows until he croaked.
The following day, Yeung took her daughter to Hong Kong’s social welfare center where she confessed to chopping off Zhou’s yingyang and killing him. She has pled not guilty and the trial is expected to continue for 11 days.
Was it murder or justifiable homicide? As I understand it, in the High Court, cases are heard by a judge and jury. In my judgment, if Yeung is telling the truth as to what happened, there is no way I would find her guilty of murder or any other crime for that matter. Zhou got exactly what he deserved!
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