根據《明報》及《蘋果日報》2006年12月嘅報導，死者丈夫劉炳新憶述事件，「以前我們報販每日要多少數量就打給青匯，青匯平時在明天就會送……今次青匯有個負責人跟我太太講，因為《東方日報》要促銷，所以本身訂100份要多收50份，而多出的50份也需要付款，付足150份。」劉又指出，無論最終額外加嘅報紙賣唔賣得出，發行商都唔會回收。佢於是應妻子要求致電《東方日報》，對方負責人話會將事件記錄落來，不過劉之後並無收到《東方日報》嘅電話。劉表示，由於發生呢次無理加紙事件，深水埗區報販成立咗「報販零售業工會」，老婆喺工會做司庫。
According to a report in Ming Pao Daily News and Apple Daily in December 2006, the husband of the deceased, Liu Bingxin, recounted the incident, "In the past, we used to call Qinghui every day as much as we wanted, and Qinghui usually delivered it tomorrow...... This time, a person in charge of Qinghui told my wife that because the "Oriental Daily" was going to promote, it would charge 50 more copies for ordering 100 copies, and the extra 50 copies would also need to be paid, and the full 150 copies would be paid. Lau also pointed out that the distributor will not recycle the additional newspapers, regardless of whether they are sold or not. So he called the Oriental Daily at his wife's request, and the person in charge of the other party said that he would record the incident, but Liu did not receive a call from the Oriental Daily after that. Lau said that as a result of this unreasonable paper filling incident, the newspaper vendors in Sham Shui Po District set up the "Newspaper Vendors Retail Trade Union", and his wife worked as the treasurer of the union.