THE seafood stall owner accused of killing his China lover on Wednesday demonstrated how he was attacked first by the woman in a mock-up cubicle which was set up in the court room.

Eu Lim Hoklai had his manacles removed so that he could show the court how he tried to subdue 30-year-old Madam Yu Hongjin and how he was knifed by the China national.

The mock-up room has a massage bed and a dummy dressed in a blouse and shorts just like Madam Yu when she was found stabbed and strangled to death two years ago in her Ang Mo Kio massage parlour.

The accused said after the woman stabbed him five times in the right side of his abdomen, he spun around and pushed her against the wall.

Using the dummy, he showed how he held Madam Yu's neck with his right hand and grabbed her right hand that was wielding the knife.

Unable to disarm her, he then tried to strangle her with both hands and ended up pushing her onto the massage bed.

He then showed how he answered a phone call from his daughter and asked her to get help.

He could not recall what he did next with his cell phone, but remembered that he felt a pain in his right abdomen and pulling up his shirt to check the wounds.

It was then Madam Yu stabbed him four times in the left abdomen, he claimed.

He grabbed her neck again with both hands until she became motionless. As he was leaving the shop he blacked out.

To DDP Cheng's repeated questions on why he did not react when Madam Yu plunged the knife into him, Eu said he could not remember what exactly happened since the incident took place two years ago.

The couple had earlier argued over a 'separation fee' which Madam Yu had demanded to break off from Eu.