The High Court heard further evidence on 7 September 2026 in the case arising from a fatal robbery at a watch shop on Pei Ho Street, Sham Shui Po, in 1991. Employee Cheng Kai-lam, 56, was shot dead at Sun Fat Company on the ground floor of 1A Pei Ho Street on 9 June that year.
An eyewitness said he saw three men after hearing the shop’s alarm. He told the court that one man fired at an employee behind the counter, while the other two smashed display cases and took goods. The three men then fled together.
Witness Lam Chak-man said he was a Secondary Five student at the time and worked during the day at his father’s Pei Ho Restaurant at No. 4 Pei Ho Street, across a road from the shop. He said he saw the three men after hearing the alarm.
Lam told police that the weapon was an L-shaped pistol. He said playing with toy guns as a child had helped him distinguish the type. This was his description of the firearm, not a confirmed forensic finding.
Retired police officer Tam Wing-hong told the court that officers collected four fingerprints from display cases inside the shop. Police later found a red private car at the junction of Tonkin Street and Boundary Street. The car was reported to have been stolen and fitted with false number plates, and a bloodstained item of clothing was found on its rear seat.
The 61-year-old defendant, Man Wan-yip, is charged with murdering Cheng and attempting to rob Cheng, Cheng Chi, Lo Siu-fung and Choi Hang-ki. A jury had previously found him unfit to plead.
The reports do not establish whether the fingerprints or bloodstained clothing were linked to Man or any other suspect. The case remains before the High Court.