Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying was on body-in-cement murder gang’s fantasy hit list, court hears

More details of ‘fantasy’ crime gang’s bounty list emerge as one of accused, Tsang Cheung-yan, continued testimony on Monday

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Former chief executive Leung Chun-ying was on the group’s hit list. Photo: AFP

Published: 8:28pm, 14 May 2018Updated: 10:43am, 15 May 2018

Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying was on a made-up bounty list that surfaced during the trial of three housemates accused of murdering their acquaintance and burying his body in cement, a court heard on Monday.

But the life of the city’s former chief executive was worth just US$100,000 – 200 times less than the bounty put on the head of the murder victim, Cheung Man-li, alias “Ah J”, the High Court heard.

The details emerged as one of the accused, Tsang Cheung-yan, continued his testimony, after he told the court last week that the hit list – referred to as a “delete record list” – was conjured up by a bogus international crime group called “There” that he and his friends made up as a joke.

Cheung Man-li, 28, was on the list with a price tag of US$20 million, part of the reason which the prosecutors said had motivated Tsang, 28, Keith Lau, 23, and Cheung Sin-hang, 26, to murder him on March 4, 2016, at their flat in Tsuen Wan.

While Tsang, a self-proclaimed member of “There”, insisted in court last week that the list – which included the likes of the Pope and the United States president – was a fantasy, Cheung Sin-hang told police in an interview played in court that Tsang told him those on the list were meant to be killed.