When a wealthy businessman was shot dead by a hitman at a Hong Kong teahouse, and a former TV star was jailed for life for paying triads to do it

“The [Xinhua] news agency said four suspects seized on the mainland including the alleged hired killer, Yang Wen, were yesterday officially arrested by the Shenzhen People’s Court.

“Harry Lam Hon-lit, 54, a director of Hong Kong-based Digger Holdings and an investor in the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, was killed with a single bullet to the head in the Luk Yu Tea House on November 30 [2002] as he ate breakfast with friends.”

Police search for the bullet that fatally wounded businessman Harry Lam Hon-lit at Luk Yu Tea House in Hong Kong’s Central neighbourhood, on November 30, 2002. Photo: David Wong
A police sniffer dog is brought to Luk Yu Tea House to look for evidence after the murder, on November 30, 2002. Photo: David Wong

“Yesterday’s trial was conducted under tight security and in secrecy,” it reported.

One of the eight defendants, accused of the Luk Yu Tea House murder case, is escorted by police to Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court, on October 25, 2006. Photo: Ricky Chung

“Mainland contract killer Yang Wen, 30, who shot Lam dead at point-blank range […] received the death sentence yesterday morning.”

Throughout the years of the Post’s reporting, “Yeung’s motive has not been spelled out”.

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