An elderly man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his older brother at a Hakka village in Hong Kong three years ago in a frenzied knife attack that he described as ripping a “mad dog into nine pieces”.
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A High Court jury on Friday returned a unanimous verdict after more than a day of closed-door deliberation to convict Chung Sze-hong, 68, of murder over the death of his brother Chung Sze-on at a three-storey house in Tai Po’s Tin Liu Ha village on February 6, 2022.
The jury of three men and four women rejected the defendant’s assertion that he mistakenly killed the deceased under provocation.
The trial heard the then 64-year-old defendant, the third child of six siblings, had been on bad terms with the deceased, 68, quarrelling with one another over topics including how to take care of their 96-year-old mother.
The defendant inflicted more than 90 injuries on his brother following an altercation, including seven stab wounds and over 50 lacerations using a fruit knife.
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The elder Chung’s domestic helper discovered his mutilated body in his home’s living room that evening after the defendant called the worker telling her to return to the house to take a look at the deceased.
The defendant also called police and claimed that a man in his 60s was “dead”, while asking paramedics to take care of his wheelchair-bound mother.