Man Convicted Of Murdering Girlfriend On Bus

A High Court jury on Tuesday unanimously convicted a man of murder for stabbing his girlfriend to death on a double-decker bus in 2017.

The court heard that Ng Yan-kin was upset that the 20-year-old victim, Li Sin-heng, had joined an orientation camp at her university, and he had threatened to post their sex videos online after she broke up with him.

Li was a nursing student at Polytechnic University.

The court was told that on September 16, 2017, Ng slashed the victim with a chopper more than 30 times while they were travelling on the bus near Chai Wan. He then slashed himself and jumped off the vehicle through a window.

The 25-year-old engineer had pleaded guilty to manslaughter before the trial began, but the prosecution rejected defence claims that he committed the killing because he was mentally unstable.

After a 36-day trial, the jury of five women and two men convicted Ng of murder following a six-hour deliberation.

Judge Audrey Campbell-Moffat said the only sentencing option for murder is life imprisonment, but she will still give the defence time for mitigation.

Sentencing has been adjourned to after January 14, with the exact date to be set later.