A man serving life imprisonment for murdering his three-year-old daughter is seeking to appeal against his conviction, according to court data.
Lau Kai-ping, 42, lodged an appeal last Wednesday, but a hearing has yet to be scheduled, judiciary documents showed.
Lau, a delivery worker, was accused of willfully assaulting and murdering his daughter Leung Nga-sze, who died in 2020 from an acute brain bleed believed to be the result of violent shaking.
In March, High Court Judge Anna Lai Yuen-kee sentenced him to life in prison after a jury unanimously found him guilty of murdering his three-year-old daughter by violently shaking her to death.
During the trial, the girl’s mother, Lau’s girlfriend at the time, testified that she had witnessed the defendant violently shaking their daughter multiple times and even lifting her by her legs and shaking her in mid-air.
The prosecution described the defendant as extremely egocentric and selfish, accusing him of physically assaulting her daughter in the name of parenting.
The defense argued that Lau and his girlfriend were unprepared for parenthood and claimed that violence was an occasional occurrence in their household, stating that while they sometimes fought, they were also loving at other times.
(Jamie Liu)
