Elizabeth Zhong murder: ex-cop hired by Fang Sun admits tampering with vehicle with body inside
- Jun ‘Jimmy’ Jin, who was paid to tail Zhong in the months before her death, told a court he removed a tracking device from under her SUV after her murder
- The former police officer was hired in July 2020 by Fang Sun, an estranged business partner of Zhong’s who is now on trial for her murder
On the same night authorities believe an intruder broke into businesswoman Elizabeth Zhong’s East Auckland home and stabbed her over 20 times in her bedroom – nearly decapitating her – a private investigator had sent a short message to the man who would later be charged with her murder.
“Always there,” Jimmy Jin told Zhong’s estranged business partner, Fang Sun, via WeChat.
The message, Jin explained to jurors on Friday at Sun’s trial, referred to a tracking device illegally placed underneath Zhong’s Land Rover that showed the vehicle had remained stationary at her home for the past 22 hours.
The next day, Zhong, 55, would be found wrapped in a blanket in the boot of the Land Rover.
Fang Sun is on trial at the High Court in Auckland, charged with the murder of Elizabeth Zhong on November 27, 2020.
