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Jia Ye sat in the front seat of Jun Jie Ying's silver Toyota in a Glenview carpark and begged to die, the High Court at Hamilton was told yesterday.
Ying, 22, told police during a videotaped interview that his former girlfriend was sad, remorseful, full of hopelessness and "pleaded" with him
to "strangle me to death".
"She said if I were to kill myself she would die with me. She asked me to kill her first", he said on videotaped evidence played to a jury in the High Court yesterday.
The interviews, recorded on seven tapes, are the last piece of evidence the Crown is calling in its case against Ying, who has admitted killing Ms Ye's new boyfriend Webin Sun, 20, but denied murdering Ms Ye, also 20, last year.
In the interviews Ying tells police about the events surrounding both deaths.
He said on the video he went to the couple's flat on Saturday, May 17, armed with rope, sellotape and a knife.
He intended to control Webin Sun and take Ms Ye away.
At 7.30am on May 18 Ying stabbed Webin Sun.
He told police he was afraid Ms Ye would run away so he tied her up and they talked until 4pm. During the conversation they talked about suicide, he said.
At 8pm they drove to a Glenview carpark, where Ms Ye asked to be strangled.
The court heard that she sat in the front passenger seat and he sat behind in the back. He admitted to police that he strangled her.
Ying told police he tried to kill himself with a knife and showed them a cut on his left wrist.
He spent the night in the Glenview carpark and the next morning he tried to hang himself with his belt in the garage of their former Fifth Ave flat.
He spent another night at the Glenview carpark before driving back to the Fifth Ave flat with some rope. Ying again tried to kill himself.
He told police he then drove to Auckland where he got drunk and fell asleep in the central city.
On the Thursday night he drove to Newmarket and shifted Ms Ye's body from the back seat into the boot. The court heard that Ying told police he was not afraid of having the body, just the smell.
On the Friday morning he decided to return to Hamilton.
- NZPA
