Hong Kong - A Hong Kong workman convicted Tuesday of the murder of a Thai woman in 2005 went on to kill a second woman three years later, a court heard.
So Kam-tong received a life sentence Tuesday for the murder of Charitar Kamolnoranath, 40, whom he stabbed and suffocated with a plastic bag in a robbery in October 2005.
The 27-year-old air conditioning workman then dumped Charitar's body in an air conditioning room on the 33rd floor of the government's Revenue Building.
For three years he evaded arrest, despite a police raid on his home shortly after the killing.
He was charged in 2008, after police conducted a second raid on his home, finding a mobile phone belonging to Charitar and a knife.
It was only after his conviction that the prosecution was able to reveal that So was already serving a life sentence for the killing of a woman two years ago while the search for Charitar's murderer was still on-going.
So had denied murdering Charitar, saying her death was accidental but the jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty.
Charitar had been missing for 12 days after visiting the government building to collect a book on October 12, 2005. She had come to Hong Kong to be with her Australian boyfriend. The victim's sister and other relatives made the trip from Thailand to attend the trial.
