A “master meat cutter” who denied butchering his ex-wife’s aunt told a court on Thursday that Hong Kong police had beaten him into making a false confession that he witnessed her demise and disposed of her bloodstained clothes.
Ngan Wing-chau, 51, claimed he ate a cup of noodles, watched TV and took a nap when Chan Sau-wa, 62, was allegedly murdered, but decided to invent a story after he was punched and kneed by officers who wanted him to cooperate during the investigation in May 2016.
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