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HONG KONG STANDARD
·AUG 241K 73
Medicine oil dispute
Killer may
hang for argument stabbing
A SUPREME Court judge yesterday passed the death sentence on a factory worker who killed his room-mate after a quarrel over the qualities of a Chinese medicine oil.
Mr Commissioner T.L. Yang imposed the sentence I on Fong Ma-sum, alias Fong Sum, 35, after a Criminal Sessions' jury of two men and five women unanimously found him guilty of a murder charge. They returned their verdict after two hours' deliberation.
Crown Counsel P. Nguyen told the court that Fong, the murdered man, Wong Chung-shing, Lo Ming and two men shared 8 cubicle at Taihangtung Resettlement Estate.
At about 10.30 pm on April 23 when Lo returned home, he found none of his room-mates present. He washed and went to sleep in the cockloft.
At about midnight, Lo felt a pain in his leg. He got up and attended to it in the public communal toilet.
When returning to the cubicle, Lo found Wong lying on his bed and Fong sitting on the bed next to Wong's.
When Lo began massaging his foot, Wong suggested he might try "tiger bone oil," a Chinese medicine.
Fong said that the oil was no good. Wong then asked Fong how he knew if he had not tried it himself.
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heated argument followed and Fong rushed to Wong's bed and stabbed him twice in the neck with a chopper.
Wong died before arriving at Kwong Wah Hospital
Fong told the court that when he was arguing over the usefulness of the oil, Wong pushed him.
"Wong picked up a stool and threw it towards me. I snatched a chopper from a bucket. During the struggle, I stabbed him," he said.
Fong and Wong had been room-mates for about 10 years.
Defence counsel was Mr J.D. Donnelly.
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