Hong Kong woman was ‘loving and caring’ step-grandmother, court hears in neglect case linked to death of girl, five

A Hong Kong woman on trial for neglecting her step-grandchildren was a “loving and caring” grandparent who did not know the full extent of the abuse that was happening in her flat until one of them died, a court heard on Thursday.

Defence counsel Chase Pun also argued that the 56-year-old accounting clerk had never used a rattan stick to hit the five-year-old girl, as well as her brother, eight, as alleged by the prosecution. Pun questioned if the two children were truly in her care at the time.