Sunday, April 19, 2009

Is this love??scary!!!


TO MAKE sure that she was well and truly dead, a Hong Kong man went into a stabbing frenzy, slashing his ex-girlfriend in the face up to 50 times.
Leung Pak Ming, 26, said he plunged his 30cm jungle knife repeatedly into 19-year-old Wilma Li Yui-yi's lower jaw.
Then he stabbed her in the chest about 10 times before cutting off her head.
When police asked why he needed to do all that, he replied: 'I wanted to make sure that she was dead.'
Details of his gruesome murder on 7Mar last year were heard before a seven-member jury in the Hong Kong Court of First Instance on Thursday, the second day of the hearing, reported Hong Kong papers.
His statement to two police officers on the day of the killing was recorded on video and was played back in court on Thursday.
Miss Li was a management student and a part-time lifeguard and swimming coach. She got to know Leung in March 2007 while she was attached to a recreation club where he worked.

Moved in together

Two months after they started dating, she moved in with Leung, reported Apple Daily.
But their relationship became strained towards the later part of their nine months together.
On 20 Feb last year, Leung decided to break up with her after arguments over her frequent SMSes to her male friends. She moved out of his home.
But he changed his mind the following day and tried to win her back, sending her countless SMSes and calling her many times. His calls went straight to her phone's voice-mail box.
Leung, who appeared indifferent during the proceedings, cried when the prosecutor read out his SMSes, reported Apple Daily.
When Leung realised his efforts to win her back were in vain, he tried to claim HK$12,000 ($2,300) from her for expenses incurred while she lived with him.
He later claimed that he used this as an excuse to see her again, reported Ming Pao.
Depressed, Leung bought two knives and slashed his wrist at about 2am on 25Feb last year.
Despite bleeding profusely, he survived.
His mother found him in a pool of blood at noon and rushed him to hospital.
He was discharged on 3Mar and managed to meet up with Miss Li, when she urged him not to take his own life.

Asked for money
Two days later, he tried again to claim money from her and was confronted by her family members.
He sent her an SMS to apologise and asked her to recall the good times they had together. But he got no reply.
Leung then recalled Miss Li telling him that she would rather he kill another person than himself.
He told the court that was when he thought of killing Miss Li. He spent HK$536 on two more knives.
On 7Mar, Leung, whose arm was still bandaged after his self-inflicted wounds, went to Miss Li's home at 9.45am.
He barged in when she opened the door at 10.50am. She repeatedly told him that she was seeing someone else.
He recounted in the video recording: 'She said 'sorry' and 'don't' and then admitted she had another boyfriend but didn't tell me because she didn't want to hurt me.'
But he told her: 'You won't have another boyfriend.'
When she turned her back to him, Leung whipped out a knife from his bag, grabbed her and held the knife to her neck.
A terrified Miss Li pleaded with him to forgive her.
But he ignored her and stabbed her with his various knives before severing her head.
He wanted to kill himself by jumping from her flat but stopped himself when he recalled Miss Li telling him that he would upset his mother if he committed suicide.
At 11.10am, he called the police and told them he had just killed his girlfriend.
Leung, 26, is pleading manslaughter but the prosecution wants him convicted of murder.

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