The son of late Hong Kong tycoon Lee Shau-kee has said the family “could not bear to say goodbye” to his father and thanked members of the public for their tributes at the end of the magnate’s funeral.
At around 9am on Monday, Lee’s children appeared at the entrance of the Hong Kong Funeral Home in North Point, where they briefly stopped to pose for photos.
They included Lee’s eldest son Peter Lee Ka-kit, younger son Martin Lee Ka-shing and his wife, Cathy Chui Lee, as well as his eldest daughter Margaret Lee Pui-man, her husband Li Ning, and younger daughters Liza Lee Pui-ling and Susanna Lee Pui-yee.
“We could not bear to say goodbye to our father, and neither could our entire family. But he was almost 100 years old,” Martin Lee Ka-shing said as he and his brother met the press after the funeral ended at around 12.50pm.
“He was surrounded by the whole family, and passed away peacefully.”
Martin Lee thanked the residents who came to pay tribute to his father.
