6PM: HORRIFIC crime scene video footage shown to a jury indicates Deng Cheng Li suffered massive blood loss from multiple stab wounds allegedly inflicted by one of his workers in Wagga’s Noodle Paradise food shop nine years ago.
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The video was screened on Tuesday afternoon during the second day of the Supreme Court trial in Griffith of 29-year-old Kin Yee Wong, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering 51-year-old Mr Li in the back of his shop after close on September 11, 2006.
Bloodied footprints can be seen on the tiled floor in the graphic video, along with smeared blood over a large area.
“Of all the footprints that were capable of being tested, who did they belong to,” Crown prosecutor Paul Kerr asked the police officer in charge of investigating Mr Li’s death, Detective Sergeant Dale Holmes.
“I believe the accused,” Detective Holmes answered.
He told the jury footprints were unique, like fingerprints, and the prints from Noodle Paradise matched impressions taken from Wong after he was extradited from Malaysia to Australia last year.
It is alleged Wong stabbed Mr Li and dragged his body into a toilet, where it was discovered nearly 24 hours after Wong flew out of Australia for Kuala Lumpur.
Earlier on Tuesday, the jury saw video footage taken by one of two closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in Noodle Paradisep showing Wong with an object in his left hand some time before he allegedly stabbed his boss.
The Crown will allege the object is a large knife Wong plunged into Mr Li’s chest four times. The clip is one of more than 30 shown to the jury on Tuesday.
Other clips include footage of Wong taking money out of the shop cash register after he allegedly killed Mr Li, Wong getting off a train at Central Station in Sydney on the morning of September 12, hopping out of a taxi at the Sydney International Airport Inn and checking into the hotel under the name of Eric Wang.
The jury also heard voice recordings of Wong inquiring on his mobile telephone about train travel between Wagga and Sydney.
Just after 10am on September 12, Wong phoned Malaysian Airlines in Australia and booked a one-way flight to Kuala Lumpur, telling the booking clerk he would pay the $506 fare and taxes by cash when he gets to Sydney airport for the 2.20pm flight.
Wong worked at Noodle Paradise about three months.
The trial continues on Wednesday.
1PM: VIDEO footage taken by a closed circuit television (CCTV) camera in the Noodle Paradise food shop shows accused murderer Kin Yee Wong with an object in his left hand some time before he allegedly stabbed his boss to death in the shop.
The Crown will allege the object is a large knife Wong plunged into Deng Cheng Li multiple times on the night of September 11, 2006.
The clip is one of about 25 shown to a Supreme Court jury on the morning of the second day of Wong’s Supreme Court trial in Griffith.
Other clips include footage of Wong taking money out of the shop cash register after he allegedly killed Mr Li, Wong getting off a train at Central Station in Sydney on the morning of September 12, hopping out of a taxi at the Sydney Airport International Hotel and checking into the hotel under the name of Eric Wang.
The jury has also heard voice recordings of Wong inquiring on his mobile telephone about train travel between Wagga and Sydney.
On Tuesday afternoon, the jury is expected to hear a recording of a telephone call Wong made to book a flight to Kuala Lumpur with Malaysian Airlines leaving on the afternoon of September 12.
11.30AM: A jury has been shown CCTV footage showing the movements of alleged killer Kin Yee Wong in the hours before he allegedly robbed and stabbed his employer at Wagga’s Noodle Paradise food shop.
So far, more than a dozen short clips have been screened to the jury, and more are to be shown.
The clips show Wong in Noodle Paradise and walking along Baylis Street to and from the Victoria Hotel on the night of September 11, 2006.
The footage also shows the alleged stabbing victim, Deng Cheng Li, counting the till about 9.31pm after the close of business and then leaving the shop three minutes later to drive another worker home.
The jury has also heard recordings of two conversations on September 11 between Wong and Countrylink reservation staff, with Wong making a booking on the 12.20am train to Sydney.
The jury heard Mr Li left the shop with about $1100 and there was still $400 in the till.
But after the discovery of Mr Li’s body on September 13, there was just $40 in the till and no sign of the $1100.
EARLIER: THE jury in a Wagga murder trial have been warned they will see graphic crime scene photos taken after the body of food shop operator Deng Cheng Li was found stabbed to death.
“You will see a lot of blood,” said Crown prosecutor, Paul Kerr.
“You will see a body insitu.”
Mr Kerr delivered the warning in his opening statement on Monday to the jury on the first day of Kin Yee Wong’s trial.
The trial – listed for four weeks – is being held in Griffith because of the courthouse upgrade in Wagga.
Wong, 29, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Li in the Noodle Paradise store on September 11, 2006.
The Crown alleges Wong stabbed Mr Li in the chest four times with a large knife and once in the head.
Mr Kerr told the jury the knife at one point went through one of Mr Li’s lung and into a rear rib.
A postmortem examination also revealed cuts to Mr Li’s hands and arms.
Police found a knife at the scene, as well as a bloodied pair of pyjamas, a bloodied T-shirt.
There was also blood spatter, bloody footprints and diluted blood in a shower recess.
Police allege the blood in the shower got there from Wong showering after stabbing Mr Li and that all the blood at the scene was Mr Li’s.
The jury heard Mr Li co-owned and lived at Noodle Paradise and that he allowed Wong – one of his employees – to live there, apparently rent free.
It is alleged that after murdering Mr Li sometime before midnight on September 11 and taking money from the cash register, Wong fled to Malaysia, flying out the next afternoon after catching a train to Sydney.
The Crown claims Wong tried to shut down two CCTV cameras that recorded his movements in the shop the night of Mr Li’s death.
Wong’s defence barrister, Ian Todd, told the jury in his opening statement they would need to consider what was Wong’s state of mind at the relevant time.
He said they would be asked to look at events in the days leading up to September 11, and he referred to Wong’s comments in a recorded police interview to a dispute over money.
He said, however, it was not just about money, but a cessation of employment.
“This was not a cold-blooded murder,” Mr Todd said.
The jury heard from Mr Kerr they would be presented with fingerprint, footprint, DNA and blood spatter evidence, shown CCTV footage of Wong’s movements inside Noodle Paradise and along Baylis Street as well as in Sydney and hear evidence from 14 witnesses.
Wong was arrested in Malaysia in June, 2014, and deported to Australia that month.
The trial will continue on Tuesday with evidence by the officer in charge of investigating Mr Li’s death, Detective Sergeant Dale Holmes.