Bloody fight between brothers broke out because girlfriend was born in the year of the tiger: Mother

A bloody public brawl between two brothers witnessed by residents in Yuen Long this week was the culmination of months of resentment sparked by claims the younger sibling’s girlfriend was born in the “wrong year,” the pair’s mother said today.

The brothers — surnamed Wong and identified by local media yesterday as 32-year-old “Ah Keung” and 20-year-old “Ah Kit” — fought at the Long Ping Estate on Wednesday, with Kit filmed punching and attacking Keung with a pair of scissors.

According to an interview with on.cc, the mother of the two brothers said the fight grew from a dispute over Kit’s girlfriend, a 20-year-old woman surnamed Kwong, who was also filmed yelling at her boyfriend to stop the attack on his older brother.

According to Apple Daily, Wong has four children — including Keung and Kit — and her husband died of cancer last year.

She told on.cc that Keung has a gambling problem and has accumulated a gambling debt of about HK$200,000 (about US$26,000). He has also been taking drugs for more than 10 years, is very superstitious, was too lazy to work, and was left by his wife.

In other words, he wasn’t doing so well.

On top of all that mounting misfortune, tension began to build when Kit’s girlfriend Kwong moved into the house about six months ago, along with her two cats.

While the mother said Kwong was “like a daughter-in-law,” she said Keung disapproved of the relationship.

The cats, it seems, were not the reason.

Keung told his younger brother to dump Kwong because she was born in the year of the tiger, a Chinese zodiac sign he believed was incompatible with their own, the year of the ox.

“Tiger will eat the ox,” their mother, discussing the issue, explained.

According to the Chinese zodiac, if you are born in the year of the ox, you are compatible with either a rat, or rooster.

Keung was reportedly kicked out of the home, but returned there on Tuesday at about 4pm in a bid to borrow money.

Inside he found Kwong, whom he suddenly attacked by pulling her hair and stealing her phone.

After hearing about what happened, Kit intervened, leading to the fight, which spilled out into the middle of the housing estate.

Wong told Apple Daily that she is worried Kit, who works for a telecommunications company, will end up in prison. That seems like a fair concern.