From www.scmp.com (South China Morning Post)
Archive titles on Clinton/Lewinsky:
Lifelong compulsion to bend and break the rules
Little-known director gets in first with Zippergate movie
Some more cool stories from today's SCMP:
SaturdayÿÿAugust 29ÿÿ1998
Wife 'had sex with stranger out of love for husband'
MAGDALEN CHOW
A woman who says she was tricked into having sex with
a stranger yesterday told a court she did it because
she loved her husband and thought it was the only way
she could help him.
She told the District Court that a man posing as her
husband had convinced her over the phone to meet
accused To Kwok-hung for sex and give him $15,000.
The woman, 49, testified that the man called her on
January 31 and said he owed $150,000 to Macau
loansharks. He said that the debt would be cancelled
if she slept with a loanshark.
To, who worked in a hair salon, posed as the
loanshark, the court heard.
"I said to [the caller]: 'You are my husband.
There is no other method now. I have to go as
I really love you'," she told the court.
To, 31, denies five charges of procuring an
unlawful sexual act with false representations
and three of obtaining property by deception.
The woman testified that she spoke to the man
claiming to be her husband several times on
the phone before agreeing to the deal.
She said that at one point she suspected he was
not her husband, but he had said his voice was
rough because he had been playing mahjong until
late the previous night.
She was told to go to the Fairyland Inn in Yuen
Long, where she had sex with the defendant,
the court heard.
When she got home, she immediately received a
call from the man posing as her husband. He
said: "Sorry my dear, but you have to go back
again," she told the court.
She later went back to the villa and again
allegedly had sex with the defendant.
When questioned by prosecutor Malcolm Nunns,
the woman said she rarely saw her husband as
he worked night shifts and she worked during
the day. She told the court she called police
when she spoke to her husband and realised
she had been tricked.
Mr Nunns has told the court that To had
tricked another woman, aged 46, into performing
oral sex on him and giving him $500 on January 2.
To was arrested at his flat in Tin Yiu Estate,
Tin Shui Wai.
The trial continues before Judge Brian de Souza.
Bomber seized in murder-suicide bid
REUTERS
Beijing police have seized a man with explosives
who was apparently planning to blow up his
estranged wife in a murder-suicide, newspapers
reported yesterday.
The man, identified as Ma Fei, 21, was caught
placing an instant noodle box filled with
explosives in front of a building in southeast
Beijing on Thursday, according to the Beijing
Morning Post and Beijing Evening News.
One report said the man also had 2.5kg of
explosives and detonators attached to his
body.
Ma told police he was searching for his wife,
who left without a trace over the Lunar New
Year.
The report said he had found the explosives
in his native Shanxi province, and planned
to kill himself and his wife. A previous
report said he was upset at failing a
university entrance examination.
Police were not available for comment.
-- Carl |
