Admitted affair
The man claimed she admitted to the affair.

“I gave her two choices – quit her job and return to my side or divorce. She chose the former, so I forgave her,”he said.

Then, in December 2008, the ex-wife filed for divorce.

The man said she moved out after that and he had not seen her since. Neither had she returned to visit the children.

The New Paper called her mobile phone and asked for her.

A woman answered the phone, and asked in Mandarin: “Are you a middleman?”

She kept quiet when we asked her what sort of middleman she was referring to. When told that she was speaking to The New Paper, the woman on the line
claimed to be a cousin of the ex-wife, who, according to her, was too busy to come to the phone.

The “cousin”, who did not give her name, then said: “She (the ex-wife) said she had suffered enough and will not talk to reporters.

“Since their divorce, she has been secretly going to her ex-husband’s flat. She would hide behind the pillars at the void deck and watch her children.”

When asked if she knew that the ex-wife had been allegedly working as a prostitute, the “cousin” said: “She said she did not. It’s shameless to do that.

“It’s really nothing unusual for her to meet her friends for a drink or a chat after work.”

The “cousin” added that the ex-wife came from a poor family and her parents are farmers.

Subsequent calls to the number went unanswered.

As for the man, he said he regretted marrying her.

He said: “I gave her too many chances.

“If I could choose again, I would rather remain single.”

He added: “But I’m relieved after divorcing her. My children and I are better off without her.”

Judge:I can understand husband’s anger

THE woman filed for a divorce in December 2008, saying in her affidavit that her husband had given her a sexually transmitted infection.

She was diagnosed with syphilis in November 1998, a year after their marriage.

But he had tested negative for the disease soon after that, and submitted two medical reports to show he could not have passed it to her.

The man counterclaimed for divorce, saying it was her unreasonable behaviour that caused the breakdown of their marriage.

He said he was the one who did most of the household chores while she spent her days “lazing about the home watching television or chatting with friends on the phone or
with neighbours”.

He added that her only contribution to the family was to sweep the floor and cook one meal a day for the children when she was home.

She later withdrew her claim and their divorce went ahead uncontested. She asked for maintenance of $1,000 a month and a 50 per cent share of their flat.

She also wanted care and control of their daughter.