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Fiona Chow

A Swedish businessman accused of raping his helper in his Hong Kong home two years ago has told a court he had intercourse with her twice before the alleged crime, saying she initiated the earlier encounters.
Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, 36, told the seven-member jury in the High Court on Tuesday the helper had come to his bed and initiated sex with him three times between July and October 2022.
The defendant has denied a count of rape and another of buggery without consent in connection with an encounter in October that year.
Ekstrom told the court from the witness box that before the alleged rape, the helper came to his room twice in July while he was watching an “erotic film”.
This was during a period in which his wife had taken their three children back to her home country of Japan, he added.
The defendant said he did not ask the helper, who was of Nepalese descent, to leave the room on the first occasion and that he was receptive to the sexual invitation as a “man with human desire”.
Questioned by the prosecution as to why he let the second encounter happen, despite saying he felt bad about his infidelity, Ekstrom told the court: “Perhaps I was in a similar situation as I was the first time. I was pleasuring myself in the middle of that. I was aroused and lacked judgment at the time.”
Ekstrom denied that the helper offered to have sex in exchange for money, even though he gave her HK$1,000 (US$128) and HK$3,000 after the two sexual encounters in July.
But he said the helper asked for “financial help” during sex, requesting he repay a HK$45,000 debt she had.
Ekstrom told the court he was taken aback by the request but agreed, saying “given the circumstances, I said yes, please continue”.
After his wife returned home in August, the helper frequently messaged him to remind him about the debt repayment, the defendant said.
“I feel I had agreed to it on questionable terms … I was not quite thinking straight,” he said.
The court heard that the Ekstrom’s third intimate encounter with the helper, which the prosecution alleged was when the rape took place, occurred on October 27, after the wife took the children away and left home.
Prosecutor Diane Crebbin accused Ekstrom of dragging the helper into his bedroom while saying “I love you, I want you” and threatening to kill her if she did not comply.
The defendant rejected the allegation and said it was the helper who went up to his room again to “comfort him”, as he was “devastated” when he returned to an empty home with no wife and children.
Asked by Crebbin why he would agree to have sex at the time if he was in a bad mood, Ekstrom replied that although it was “maybe a breach of morality, [he] just wanted to feel cared for”.
According to the helper’s earlier testimony, she cried in her room after the alleged rape and left the house the next morning.
But Ekstrom shared a different version with the court, saying he had asked the helper to leave after he realised he did not want his marriage to fall apart due to their “immoral relationship” and wanted to put an end to it.
The court will return on Wednesday for the parties’ closing submissions. The verdict is expected on Thursday.


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Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, 36, tells court she approached him in bed three times between July and October 2022


Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, 36, tells court she approached him in bed three times between July and October 2022.
