The trial of Hong Kong socialite Cai Tianfeng's body dismemberment case continues, the defendant Kwong Kongjie reveals his experience on the night of the case

Hong Kong socialite Cai Tianfeng was suspected of being murdered and her body was cut into pieces on February 21, 2023. The deceased’s ex-husband, Kwong Kong-chi, his father, Kwong Qiu, and her ex-husband’s brother, Kwong Kong-jie, were charged with murder and preventing the legal burial of the body. The case continued to be heard in the High Court of the Hong Kong SAR on November 13, and the defendant Kwong Gangjie appeared in court to give evidence.

Kwong Gangjie said in court that on the night of the incident, in the bathroom of the village house in Lung Mei Estate, Tai Po, Hong Kong, he saw two knives immersed in water in a plastic box in the shower room, a knife and blood stains on the floor of the shower room. His father, Kwong Qiu, instructed him to clean the knives and shower room, and told him to put on gloves, a raincoat and rain boots.

Kwong Gangjie said that he did not dare to leave the bathroom that night and witnessed Kwong Qiu holding a bucket and walking back and forth between the kitchen and the room where Cai Tianfeng's body was placed. He didn't close his eyes or talk to his father all night. He cried when he heard the sound of cutting knives. He described the night as a long one, during which he had a phone call with his younger brother, Kwong Kong Chi.

Kwong Gangjie recalled that Cai Tianfeng's husband Tan Fangjun and mother Zhang Yanhua called him that night to inquire about Cai Tianfeng's whereabouts. He replied that he had taken Cai Tianfeng to Tai Po in the afternoon.

In response to Zhang Yanhua's earlier confession, Kwong Gangjie said that Cai Tianfeng went out drinking with friends during the phone call. Kwong Gangjie denied it in court, emphasizing that he did not say this and that he knew Cai Tianfeng did not drink for fun.

Kwong Kong Kit also testified that in the early morning of the next day after the incident, his father Kwong Qiu picked him up from the village house in Lung Mei Estate. He first went to Tsuen Wan to pick up a car and send Cai Tianfeng's son to school, and then went to Sham Shui Po to wash the car. Kwong Qiu brought several bags of inscriptions to meet him in Sham Shui Po and proposed to pay homage together. The two then went to Tseung Kwan O Cemetery.

When asked by the defense barrister who he wanted to pay homage to, Kwong said he had not communicated directly with his father, but he believed that according to Chinese tradition, relatives would pay homage when their relatives passed away, and he believed it was Cai Tianfeng.