The three convicted of “the murder of hello kitty” they were Chan Man-lok, Leung Shing-cho AND Leung Wai-lun. They were 34, 27 and 21 years old at the time of the crime.
Police said Chan had an impulsive personality and had no sympathy for the victim’s suffering; that Leung Shing-Cho was antisocial, psychopathic, disobedient, and irritable; that Leung Wai-lun was irritable and ruthless.
The personalities of the antagonists in this story go hand in hand with what happened that fateful April 1999 in a dirty building in Hong Kong.
a frightening discovery
Some say that a dream solved the most gruesome murder in the history of the land of Jackie Chan.
On 24 May 1999, a social worker reported that the fiancée of one of the defendants had confessed to her that she had dreamed of situations similar to those she had experienced. Fan Man-yee -the protagonist of this story- before he died.
Two days after the social worker’s complaint, the carabinieri found him on the third floor of a building in the shopping centre tsimshatsui a Hello Kitty doll surrounded by worms.
The discovery has unlocked the case ever since It didn’t take long for the agents to realize that Man-yee’s skull was hidden inside the smelly stuffed animal..
deadly debt
the scene was awful: in the apartment, in addition to Kitty’s doll, there were boiling pots with the remains of boiled bones and feces.
Fan Man-yee’s skull forced its way inside the toy weeks after the trio kidnapped her over a debt she owed one of them since 1997.
Man-yee was a nightclub hostess and owed Chan, a local mobster, about 8,000 yen (about $60) that she stole from him to pay for her grandmother’s medical bills.
When the criminal found out, he ordered Leung Shing-cho and Leung Wai-lun to go find Fan and collect his money no matter what.
Chan’s henchmen managed to get Man-yee to give them 4,000 yen, but nothing more. It would take the woman so long to collect the rest of the money that, due to the interest on her that the gangster had added to her, her debt quickly increased to 30,000 yen.
The woman would become pregnant and her debt would increase even more. Consequentially. On March 17, 1999 Chan made a drastic decision: he ordered the Leungs to kidnap Fan of her and lock her up on the third floor of the building where her nightmare would take place to force her to pay.
Many of the submissions that Fan suffered with her sadistic captors are irreproducible.
The tortures performed by the trio were varied. Most of the time they practiced them for fun under the influence of methamphetamines. They used cooking oil, feces, urine and fire.
In mid-April, the battered body of Fan Man-yee couldn’t take it anymore and the woman died.
limitless cruelty
The killers carried the body into a bathtub to finish bleeding. Then they sawed off his bones, put his organs in plastic bags and boiled everything in pots. Chan was in charge of cremating the victim’s head with a kerosene stove.
At the same time, while they were getting rid of the body, the carabinieri went to the building they were in because someone had just filed a report of rape.
Hastily, fearing detection, the criminals threw Fan’s remaining bones out the window, and Chan hid what was left of Yee’s head in the aforementioned Kitty doll. When he had finished, he ordered his laderos to give some dogs the little meat left over by the woman.
the process
there were witnesses. The day the men disposed of the body, one person said he saw one of them warming a knife and photographed him. Another said she sensed a stinky smell coming from the apartment they were in.
Ultimately, all three would soon fall into police hands. One of the two Leungs turned himself in, Chan was captured and the other henchman was only arrested in February of the following year.
At trial, the seven jurors accused them of three counts of murder, illegal detention and impediment to burial.
At first, they denied killing her, claiming that Fan died because she took methamphetamines on her own. There was even a time when the two Leungs accused Chang of committing the crime himself.
The questioning of the three defendants was concluded in November 2000. At the time, it was unclear whether the woman had died of methamphetamine or beatings, but all were convicted.
On December 6 of the same year, all three were sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. One of them, Leung Shing-cho, passed away in 2014 because the Justice accepted his appeal for manslaughter and imposed a lesser sentence on him.
Source: Clarin
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