A man charged with murdering and dismembering a 16-year-old girl confided to his best friend that he strangled her after they had sex, a court heard yesterday.
Tse Yin-tak, 30, testified that Ting Kai-tai, 24, told him Kiki Wong Ka-mui had said before he killed her that she 'wanted to die very much'.
Mr Tse said he received three telephone calls from Ting on the night of April 27 - the day it is alleged Ting killed the compensated-dating girl, chopped up her body and flushed pieces down a toilet, before dumping the bones at a market and the head in the sea.
'[Ting] said he had killed someone. He told me he strangled a girl and he dismembered the girl,' Mr Tse said. '[Ting] also said the girl had told him before that she wanted to die very much, and he did not know why he just strangled her when they had sex.'
Mr Tse was giving evidence in the Court of First Instance at the trial of Ting, who has admitted preventing the lawful burial of a corpse but has denied murder.
In video interviews, Ting told police he was so dazed by ketamine and Ecstasy he had taken the previous night that he could not remember how Wong ended up dead in his bed at his rented Sham Shui Po flat on the afternoon of April 27.
Mr Tse, a night-shift logistics clerk, said he got to know Ting 10 years ago at a food store where Ting was a delivery worker. He said he found it difficult to accept he had killed someone.
