
Court hears former father-in-law enlisted sons to murder Abby Choi over a property dispute.
Hong Kong court hears ex-father-in-law enlisted sons to murder socialite Abby Choi and dispose of her body after she insisted on selling a luxury flat.
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Abby Choi Tin-fung was murdered and her body dismembered following a dispute over a luxury flat.
Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung’s former father-in-law enlisted his two sons to help him murder the 28-year-old and dispose of her dismembered body after he became “extremely resentful and angry” over her insistence on selling a HK$72 million (US$9.2 million) flat where he was living, a court has heard.
Choi’s ex-husband, Alex Kwong Kong-chi, 31, and his elder brother Anthony Kwong Kong-kit, 35, pleaded guilty to preventing the lawful burial of Choi’s body between February 21 and 23.
Their father, retired police sergeant Kwong Kau, 68, pleaded not guilty to the same offence. All three defendants deny murdering Choi.

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