The Hello Kitty Murder Case (Case Number: CACC 522/2000)

The Hello Kitty Murder Case was a 1999 case in which a nightclub hostess was abducted and tortured in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, after stealing a wallet owned by one of her frequent customers. On 17 March, Fan Man-yee was captured, kidnapped, and tortured by three men and one girl before dying a month later. She was then decapitated and her skull was placed inside of a Hello Kitty doll, which symbolized and gave the name for the murder case.

No. 31 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, where the murder took place. The building involved is four stories high, with two units on each floor. The first to second floors are shops and the third to fourth floors are residential buildings. The right unit in the picture is Block A and the left unit is Block B. The murder occurred on the third floor Block B. The building was demolished in 2012 and rebuilt into Soravit on Granville in 2016.

Location

No. 31, 3rd Floor, Block B Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong kong

Date

1999

Attack type

Manslaughter

Homicide

Home invasion

Weapons

Metal pipes, kitchen utensils, hot wax, melted plastic, spices

Victims

Fan Man-yee

Perpetrators

Chan Man-lok

Leung Shing-cho

Leung Wai-lun

No. of participants

4 people

Background

Fan Man-yee suffered throughout her early childhood and teenage years. As a child, she was raised in an all girl's home as she was abandoned by her family. When she turned 15, she had to leave the orphanage because they had an age restriction. Fan Man-yee became homeless and developed a drug addiction. She was a sex worker on the streets until the age of 21, when she began working at a brothel.

kidnapping

Chan Man-lok, a 34-year-old drug dealer, pimp, and member of the Chinese mafia, was one of Fan Man-yee's usual clients at the brothel.It was said that she was his personal favorite and he'd seek her out for her services. On one occasion, Fan Man-yee stole his wallet that contained about 4000 Hong Kong dollars (roughly 500 USD).When Chan Man-lok realized that his money was gone, he knew who had stolen it and demanded her to return the money in addition to a fee of 10,000 HKD. Although Fan Man-yee returned the stolen money immediately, she needed additional time to gather the additional fee.

She was kidnapped by three men and one girl: 34-year-old Chan Man-lok, 27-year-old Leung Shing-cho, 21-year-old Leung Wai-lun, and Chan Man-lok's 14-year-old grooming victim, Ah Fong. They took her to an apartment at No. 31 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui,where they imprisoned her for a month. Initially, Man-lok intended to make money off of Fan Man-yee by offering her as a ********** to other people.

Torture

During her imprisonment, Fan-yee was subjected to torture. According to Chan Man-lok's grooming victim, they beat her with metal bars, kitchen utensils, and furniture pieces, sometimes while hanging her and using her as a punching bag. In one occasion, they had kicked her head around 50 times, in which Ah Fong had joined in. They rubbed spices into her wounds, burned her with candle wax and hot plastic (specifically on her legs and feet so she couldn't walk), raped her, forced her to consume human feces and urine, and forced her to smile and say she enjoyed the beatings; if she refused, they subjected her to even harsher torture. This all lead to traumatic shock and ultimately her death.

Murder

After a month of imprisonment and torture, Fan-yee succumbed to her wounds and died while her captors were out. Other references say she died overnight.Upon returning home, they discovered her deceased body in the bathroom they had locked her in. Her body was then dismembered and boiled. Her captors then sewed her boiled skull inside of a Hello Kitty mermaid doll and discarded the rest of her remains.Only her skull, one tooth, and some internal organs were recovered in a plastic bag.

Fan-yee's remains were found only after Chan's grooming victim, Ah Fong, led police to the scene.

Trial

After a six-week and four days trial, the three men were convicted of manslaughter, as the jury ruled the remains were not sufficient to show whether Fan-yee was murdered or died in another way, such as a drug overdose.The jury could not rule that the men intended to kill 23-year-old Fan Man-yee, which would have meant a mandatory life sentence, but it was determined she died as a result of their abuse.Ah Fong testified at the trial in exchange for immunity.

Justice Peter Nguyen, who sentenced the trio to life in prison with the possibility of parole, stated, "Never in Hong Kong in recent years has a court heard of such cruelty, depravity, callousness, brutality, violence, and viciousness."[1] Psychiatric reports described the three, members of a secret triad society, as "remorseless". There would be no review for parole for 20 years, i.e. until 2020.

Aftermath

The apartment building, in which the crime took place, was demolished in September 2012 and has been rebuilt as a hotel in 2016.

The publicity around the case resulted in the production and release of films that told the story. Both Human Pork Chop and There is a Secret in my Soup were released in 2001.

The End

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