Alex Kwong, Kwong Kau and Anthony Kwong

Introduction

Alex Kwong Kong-chi, his father Kwong Kau and his elder brother Anthony Kwong Kong-kit are the three Hong Kong men who went on trial on September 21, 2026, charged with the February 2023 murder of Abby Choi Tin-fung, the 28-year-old model, socialite and influencer whose killing shocked the city and made headlines around the world. The trio face a joint count of murder and are also charged with preventing the lawful burial of Choi’s body; murder carries a mandatory life sentence in Hong Kong. The jury trial, presided over by Deputy High Court Judge Brian Keith, was set down for 45 days and could run until December 2026.

Background Information

Abby Choi was one of Hong Kong’s most visible young socialites, sharing her life of photo shoots and fashion shows with more than 100,000 Instagram followers. She attended Paris Fashion Week, posed with luxury brands from London to Shanghai, and less than two weeks before her death was the digital cover model for L’Officiel Monaco. She was also an animal-welfare advocate who co-founded a charity rescuing injured cats and dogs.

Choi married Alex Kwong at 18 and had two children with him before they divorced; she later had two more children with her second husband, yet according to Wikipedia reporting she maintained a close relationship with her ex-husband’s family, and Anthony Kwong worked as her hired driver. Kwong Kau, the defendants’ patriarch, is a former policeman. Alex Kwong, separately, pleaded guilty to six unrelated theft and jumping-bail charges dating back years before Choi’s death, and was sentenced to three and a half years’ imprisonment while awaiting this trial.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Allegations. The claims in this section are allegations from Hong Kong police statements and court charging documents, as reported by CNN, the South China Morning Post and the New York Post. They were never admitted by Alex Kwong, Kwong Kau or Anthony Kwong, and have not been tested at trial, which opened only on September 21, 2026. All three men are presumed innocent unless and until a jury proves otherwise.

According to police, Choi was reported missing on February 21, 2023, after she failed to pick up her daughter from school, and three days later body parts believed to be hers were recovered at a house in the Tai Po district village of Lung Mei Tsuen. Police said they found a meat slicer, an electric saw and clothing at the scene, and reportedly recovered her skull in a pot; DNA testing later confirmed the recovered head was Choi’s.

Anthony Kwong, Choi’s driver, was among the first three suspects arrested on February 25, 2023, alongside his parents; Alex Kwong was caught days later after, police said, he unsuccessfully tried to flee Hong Kong by sea. According to accounts compiled in the case’s Wikipedia entry, Kwong Kau was alleged to have masterminded the killing, with the motive believed to be a monetary dispute — reportedly over a luxury Kadoorie Hill apartment that was bought and then put in his name. All three were charged with murder on February 27, 2023, denied bail, and in December 2023 were additionally charged with preventing Choi’s lawful burial.

Public Reaction and Consequences

Choi’s killing transfixed the Asian financial hub, where violent crime is rare, and drew international attention. Dozens of people waited outside the courtroom for the trial’s opening hearing, and the judiciary arranged a live broadcast to accommodate the expected crowds. All three defendants appeared in court wearing masks — Kwong Kau in a white T-shirt, his sons in suits — and, according to the New York Post, appeared calm.

The trial’s scale reflects the case’s notoriety: the Department of Justice engaged senior counsel Charlotte Draycott to lead the prosecution, while veteran barristers Andrew Raffell, Oliver Davies and Trevor Beel represent Alex Kwong, Kwong Kau and Anthony Kwong respectively. Because Hong Kong runs on a common-law system, a sequestered jury will decide their fate; prosecutors previously said the sheer volume of DNA testing was why the case took more than three years to reach trial.

Current Status

The trial officially opened on Monday, September 21, 2026, with the first hearing devoted to preliminary issues; jury selection was expected later in the week and the prosecution’s opening at a later date. The three men have been held in custody since their 2023 charging, and Alex Kwong is additionally serving his three-and-a-half-year sentence for the theft and bail-jumping convictions he admitted. No verdict exists; until the jury returns one, the murder and burial charges against all three men remain allegations they are entitled to contest, and it is unclear whether any defendant will give evidence.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Three years of remand have already defined the defendants’ lives: a former policeman, a chauffeur and a man already imprisoned for theft now stand formally accused together of one of the most notorious killings in modern Hong Kong history. A conviction on the murder count would mean mandatory life imprisonment; an acquittal would still leave them forever linked to a case that reporters have already placed alongside the city’s most infamous crimes, from the Braemar Hill murders to the 1999 Hello Kitty murder case. For Choi’s family, the trial is the closest thing to an accounting: her mother has filed court action over the apartment at the alleged center of the dispute, while the husband she remarried remembered her as an attentive mother and said he would raise all four of her children.