HORRIFIC crime scene video footage shown to a jury indicates Deng Cheng Li suffered massive blood loss from multiple stab wounds allegedly inflicted by one of his workers in Wagga’s Noodle Paradise food shop nine years ago.
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The video was screened on Tuesday afternoon during the second day of the Supreme Court trial in Griffith of 29-year-old Kin Yee Wong, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering 51-year-old Mr Li in the back of his shop after close on September 11, 2006.
Bloodied footprints can be seen on the tiled floor in the graphic video, along with smeared blood over a large area.
“Of all the footprints that were capable of being tested, who did they belong to,” Crown prosecutor Paul Kerr asked the police officer in charge of investigating Mr Li’s death, Detective Sergeant Dale Holmes.
“I believe the accused,” Detective Holmes answered.
He told the jury footprints were unique, like fingerprints, and the prints from Noodle Paradise matched impressions taken from Wong after he was extradited from Malaysia to Australia last year.
It is alleged Wong stabbed Mr Li and dragged his body into a toilet, where it was discovered nearly 24 hours after Wong flew out of Australia for Kuala Lumpur.
Earlier on Tuesday, the jury saw video footage taken by one of two closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in Noodle Paradisep showing Wong with an object in his left hand some time before he allegedly stabbed his boss.
The Crown will allege the object is a large knife Wong plunged into Mr Li’s chest four times. The clip is one of more than 30 shown to the jury on Tuesday.
Other clips include footage of Wong taking money out of the shop cash register after he allegedly killed Mr Li, Wong getting off a train at Central Station in Sydney on the morning of September 12, hopping out of a taxi at the Sydney International Airport Inn and checking into the hotel under the name of Eric Wang.
The jury also heard voice recordings of Wong inquiring on his mobile telephone about train travel between Wagga and Sydney.
Just after 10am on September 12, Wong phoned Malaysian Airlines in Australia and booked a one-way flight to Kuala Lumpur, telling the booking clerk he would pay the $506 fare and taxes by cash when he gets to Sydney airport for the 2.20pm flight.
Wong worked at Noodle Paradise about three months.
The trial continues on Wednesday.