Ex-mother-in-law of slain Hong Kong model Abby Choi granted bail by High Court
- Jenny Li released on HK$200,000 bail after spending more than year in custody pending trial for allegedly perverting course of justice
- Slaying of Choi shocked Hong Kong when police found her skull, legs and some broken ribs in ground-floor flat of three-storey village house in Tai Po
The former mother-in-law of slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung has secured a HK$200,000 (US$25,630) bail after spending more than a year in custody pending trial for allegedly perverting the course of justice.
Mrs Justice Judianna Barnes of the High Court agreed on Friday to release Jenny Li Sui-heung on HK$100,000 cash bail, with her nephew providing another sum of the same amount as surety.
Li was barred from leaving Hong Kong and contacting any prosecution witness by any means.
Barnes singled out Choi’s mother, husband, parents-in-law and two of Li’s grandchildren as people the accused must not contact under any circumstances.
Li is required to report to police three times a week, surrender her travel documents within two weeks of her temporary release and seek permission from the court if she needs to spend a night anywhere other than her new residential address in Tuen Mun.
The court also barred Li from going to three locations: her former home on Kadoorie Hill, a residential block in Lai Chi Kok’s Manhattan Hill and a house in Kowloon Tong.
