A Hong Kong appellate court has overturned a murder conviction and ordered a retrial for a man accused of killing his girlfriend seven years ago. The decision cited the trial judge's failure to fully consider the defendant's violent personality traits.

A Hong Kong appellate court has quashed the murder conviction of a jobless man who allegedly beat his girlfriend to death and hid her body under a mattress seven years ago, ruling that the trial judge had not properly directed the jury to fully consider the alleged perpetrator’s violent personality traits. The Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled in favour of Law Wai-man, who was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Lau Lee-chi in 2019, overturning his conviction and ordering a retrial. Law,...