No apology from man who helped killer cut up and dump parents? bodies
Tse Chun-kei had nightmares about victim?s severed hand
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 25 March, 2015, 5:58pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 26 March, 2015, 9:07am
24 Mar 2015
A man who helped dismember the bodies of his friend's parents, whom the friend had killed, has said in a magazine interview he did not feel sorry for his role in the case.
The man, Tse Chun-kei, 38, was cleared of murder on Friday when a nine-member jury found his friend Henry Chau Hoi-leung, 31, guilty of murdering his father, Chau Wing-ki, and mother, Siu Yuet-yee.
Both Tse and Chau had earlier admitted to two counts of preventing the lawful burial of the victims by cutting up and cooking parts of their bodies. The double murder took place in Tse's flat at Tai Kok Tsui in March 2013.
Henry Chau, 31, was convicted of two counts of murder by an 8-1 majority verdict. He has been sentenced to life in prison.
Tse was sentenced to one year in prison on the charge of preventing lawful burial, but was released immediately as he had already been in custody for more than one year.
Talking about the case in an interview with Next Magazine published yesterday, Tse replied in the negative when asked if he felt sorry about his role in disposing of the bodies. "There is no sorry to say," he told the magazine, adding that Chau had dumped some of the limbs in the sea and "things would be better" if the body parts could be recovered.
"But if it turns out they cannot be found, there is nothing I can do to help," he said.
Tse, who was given an IQ test after his arrest last year and received a low score of 84, said Chau forced him into helping dispose of the body parts five days after the murder.
Tse said that when he returned to the flat, Chau told him to open a plastic box. He found a hand inside and Chau told him: "You can't get away. You are part of this project now."
He said Chau was tough on him.
"He scolded me fiercely. He told me not to ask anything but do it," Tse said.
The pair first met in 2007, when they worked for the same company. In the early years of their friendship, Tse said he saw Chau as his brother because he treated him well, such as "treating me to fine food and taking me to buy fine clothing".
But Tse told the magazine he no longer saw Chau as a friend, though he did not hate him.
Tse grew up in a close-knit, single-parent family, his hard-working mother the sole breadwinner for him and his sister.
His childhood was far from happy. His sister, Phoebe Tse, who accompanied her brother in the interview, recalled "almost everyone" bullied him as a boy.
Tse failed all subjects in his school examinations except mathematics. After completing Form Five, he bounced around various menial jobs, and had few relationships, he and his sister told the magazine. He married an Indonesian woman but discovered on their wedding night that his wife had a husband and boyfriend in her hometown.
The magazine said the interview was conducted in a Tsuen Wan hotel hours after Tse walked free from the High Court in Admiralty on Friday.
"Now I feel like dreaming. It is like ? I am still asleep," Tse told the magazine.
He said he had nightmares in which he saw the dismembered hand.
"Sometimes I dreamed about the hand and the face of Henry Chau," Tse said. "Initially afterwards, these dreams came often. Now it has become less often. But I often dream about being bitten by a giant spider," he said.