When a death sentence was upheld for a revenge attack on Hong Kong triad leader’s son, 14
- A man killed a triad leader’s son by slashing him more than 100 times in 1988. He received a death sentence, which he failed to overturn
“A man who killed the 14-year-old son of a triad leader by slashing him more than 100 times in what was described as a ‘gruesome revenge attack’ yesterday lost his appeal against a murder conviction,” reported the South China Morning Post on October 10, 1990.
“Fung Kam-keung, 28, was sentenced to death in August last year for Lee Shu-leung’s murder. He also received eight years’ jail for wounding Shu-leung’s 12-year-old sister, Kit-hing, with intent at their home in Hing Man estate, Chai Wan, on June 23, 1988.
“Dismissing Fung’s appeal, vice-president Mr Justice Silke rejected counsel Mr Gerard McCoy’s submission that an inquiry should have been held before the trial judge ruled the girl was old enough to give evidence.
“The Court of Appeal decided that the trial judge, Mr Justice Barnes, clearly found the girl was competent to give evidence and that she was intelligent and mature. Mr Justice Silke said the girl’s evidence was admissible in the circumstances.
“Evidence said the children’s father, Lee Kam-yuen, was a member of the Fuk Yee Hing triad society and Fung’s ‘Big Brother’. The trial heard that ill-feelings developed between the two men when Fung tried to leave the society and was asked for a $50,000 separation fee.
“At about 11.30pm on June 23, 1988, Fung went to Lee’s home in Man Chak Lau, Hing Man estate, where the children were sleeping alone. The girl heard Fung telling her brother during the chopping that he wanted to kill him because ‘I hate your father’.
“The boy was later found to have more than 100 lacerations. The girl was chopped six times on the head and her shoulder was fractured.”
