The three convicted of
the "Hello Kitty murder
" were
Chan Man-lok
,
Leung Shing-cho,
and
Leung Wai-lun
. They were 34, 27, and 21 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 merciless.
The personalities of the antagonists in this story go hand in hand with what happened that fateful April 1999 in a dirty Hong Kong building.
Fan Man-yee was tortured for days.
a frightening discovery
Some say that a dream solved the most macabre murder in the history of the land of Jackie Chan.
On May 24, 1999, a social worker denounced that the girlfriend of one of the defendants had confessed to her that she had been dreaming of situations similar to those experienced by
Fan Man-yee
-the protagonist of this story- before she died.
Two days after the social worker's complaint, the police found
a Hello Kitty doll surrounded by worms on the third floor of a building in the
Tsim Sha Tsui shopping center.
The discovery unlocked the case, since
the agents did not take long to realize that Man-yee's skull was hidden inside the stinking stuffed animal
.
In this place would have been the apartment where the murderers massacred the woman.
deadly debt
The scene was horrible
: in the apartment, in addition to Kitty's doll, there were hot pots with the remains of boiled bones and feces.
Fan Man-yee's skull found its way inside the toy weeks after the trio kidnapped her over a debt the woman had 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 had stolen 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.
The woman would take so long to collect the rest of the money that she owed that, due to the interest that the gangster added to her, her debt quickly increased to 30,000 yen.
Fan Man-yee died in mid-April 1999.
The woman would become pregnant and her debt would increase even more.
Consequently.
On March 17, 1999 Chan made a drastic decision: she ordered the Leungs to kidnap Fan from her and lock her up on the third floor of the building where the nightmare would take place to force her to pay.
Many of the submissions that Fan suffered with his sadistic kidnappers are irreproducible.
The
tortures carried out by the trio were various.
Most of the time they practiced them for fun under the influence of methamphetamines.
They used cooking oil, feces, urine, and fire.
Chan Man-lok was the leader of the monstrous group.
In mid-April,
Fan Man-yee
's battered body
couldn't take it anymore and the woman died .
limitless cruelty
The murderers took the body to 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.
The men drained the corpse of their victim in the bathtub of the apartment.
At the same time, while they were disposing of the body, the police went to the building where they were because someone had just filed a rape complaint.
In a hurry, afraid of being caught, the criminals threw Fan's remaining bones out of the window, and Chan hid what was left of Yee's head in the aforementioned Kitty doll.
When he finished, he ordered his laderos to give the little leftover meat of the woman to some dogs.
The doll was surrounded by maggots and was losing blood.
the trial
There were witnesses
.
The day the men disposed of the body, one person said he saw one of them heating up a knife and took photos of it.
Another stated that she perceived a stinking odor coming from the apartment where they were.
Ultimately, all three would soon fall into the hands of the police.
One of the two Leungs turned himself in, Chan was caught, and the other henchman was arrested only in February of the following year.
At trial, the seven jurors indicted them on
three counts of murder, unlawful imprisonment, and preventing burial
.
At first they denied killing her, arguing that Fan died because she had taken methamphetamine on her own.
There was even a time when the two Leungs accused Chang of committing the crime on his own.
The three defendants were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.
One of them has already left because the Justice attended his appeal.
Interrogation of the three defendants ended in November 2000. At the time it was not clear whether the woman died from methamphetamine or from beatings, but all were convicted.
On December 6 of that year, all three received life sentences for manslaughter.
One of them, Leung Shing-cho, left in 2014 because the Justice accepted his appeal for involuntary manslaughter and gave him a lesser sentence.
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