The Kwong’s face another charge of preventing lawful burial over Abby Choi’s butchering

Prosecutors have thrown another charge of preventing the lawful burial of a body at Alex Kwong Kong-chi, his older brother and his father over the butchering of his socialite ex-wife Abby Choi Tin-fung. 

Choi, 28, had been missing since February 21 and her headless body was found a Tai Po village house three days later, as police spent the next few weeks searching for her remaining body parts. 

The latest charge came as the three of them – 28-year-old Alex Kwong, 31-year-old Anthony Kwong Kong-kit and 65-year-old Kwong Kau – appeared alongside 63-year-old mother Jenny Li Sui-heung in Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday. 

The three Kwong’s were charged with murder while Li was charged with perverting the course of public justice. 

In court today, the prosecution pressed another charge of preventing the lawful burial of a body against the trio. Their case was adjourned to January 29 as requested by the prosecution for it to be admitted to the High Court. 

Li’s case on the other hand was adjourned to January 31 and will be transferred to the District Court. 

Defense counsel Eric So Chi-kit applied to release Li on bail but faced opposition from the prosecution. Alex Kwong once disrupted the prosecution during their submission and the defense apologized to the court. 

The bail application was eventually denied by principal magistrate Veronica Heung Shuk-han. 

As for yacht company staffer Lam Shun, 41, and Pun Hau-yin, 29, they each face a count of assisting an offender with intent to impede his apprehension and prosecution by arranging a yacht for Alex Kwong to flee to Macau. 

Both were granted bail and will appear in court again on February 29.