Hong Kong court orders retrial for former university professor convicted of murdering wife
A Hong Kong court has ordered a retrial for former University of Hong Kong professor Cheung Kie-chung after he successfully appealed against his murder conviction over killing his wife in 2018. The Court of Appeal on Friday quashed Cheung’s murder verdict and ordered a fresh trial for the former engineering scholar, local media reported. A panel of three judges allowed Cheung’s appeal after hearing the defence argument that the trial judge had misdirected the jury by failing to give sufficient weight to the professor’s mental state at the time of the killing. During his original trial in 2020,...