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Hello Kitty murder
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.
LocationNo. 31, 3rd Floor, Block B Glenville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong kong
Date1999 (1999)
Attack type
Manslaughter
Homicide
Home invasion
WeaponsMultiple weapons
VictimsFan Man-yee
PerpetratorsChan Man-lok
Leung Shing-cho
Leung Wai-lun
No. of participants
4 people
Case Number: CACC 522/2000

The Hello Kitty murder 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 (樊敏儀) 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.

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. As the orphanage had an age restriction of the age 16, Fan Man Yee became homeless and developed a drug addiction, turned to illegal sex-work and prostitution in the streets for survival. At the age of 21, Fan Man-Yee began working at a brothel as a sexworker. [1]

Kidnapping

Chang Man-Lok (陳文樂), a 34-year-old (sources mention that he was member of the Chinese mafia, a drug dealer, and a pimp[2]), was one of Fan Man-Yee's usual clients for her sexwork. It was said that she was his personal favorite in the brothel and he'd seek her out for her services. Fan Man-Yee decided to take advantage of his favoritism and steal his wallet that contained about 500 US Dollars (4000 Hong Kong Dollars). [1] As Chan Man-Lok realized that his money was gone, he knew who had stolen it and demanded her to return the money with an interest fee of 10,000 HK Dollars. Although Fan Man-Yee returned the stolen money immediately, she begged for additional time to gather the interest payment.

At first, Man-lok had thought about turning Fan Man-Yee into his own prostitute, and make money off of her earnings, but the plan got turned into a kidnapping.[1] This was when she was kidnapped by three men and one girl: 34-year-old Chan Man-lok (陳文樂), 27-year-old Leung Shing-cho (梁勝祖), 21-year-old Leung Wai-lun (梁偉倫), and Chan Man-lok's 14-year-old grooming victim known as “Ah Fong”. They took her to an apartment at No. 31 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui,[3] where they imprisoned her for a month.

Torture

During her imprisonment, Fan 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.[4][5]

Murder

After a month of imprisonment and torture, Fan succumbed to her wounds and passed away while her captors were out. Other references say she died overnight[2]. 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[1]. Only her skull, one tooth, and some internal organs were recovered in a plastic bag.[5]

Fan's remains were found only after Chan's grooming victim led police to the scene.[6]

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 was murdered or died in another way, such as a drug overdose.[4]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.[7] The grooming victim, Ah-Fong, testified at the trial in exchange for immunity.[6]

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.[6]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.[7]

Aftermath

The apartment building, in which the crime took place, was demolished in September 2012 and has been rebuilt as a hotel in 2016.[1]

The publicity around the case resulted in the production and release of films that told the story. Both Human Pork Chop (烹屍之喪盡天良) and There is a Secret in my Soup were released in 2001.[8]


Category: People murdered in Hong Kong Category:1999 crimes in Hong Kong Category:1999 murders in Asia Category: Hello Kitty Category: Kidnappings in Hong Kong Category: Murder in Hong Kong Category:1990s murders in Hong Kong Category:Triad (organized crime) Category: People murdered by organized crime Category: Incidents of violence against women Category: Violence against women in Asia

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Serena, Katie (30 April 2018). "The Story Of Hong Kong's Notorious "Hello Kitty Murder"". All That's Interesting. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b Moreno, Abeni (28 October 2021). "Why is the gruesome Hello Kitty murder one of the scariest true crime tales ever?". Film Daily. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  3. ^ Lam, Tiffany (3 December 2011). "Haunted Hong Kong: Read if you dare | CNNGo.com". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b "妙齡女郎慘遭殘酷碎尸 三名疑犯陸續落網". archive.ph. 6 December 2012. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Trio sentenced to life in jail for gruesome killing in H.K | Asian Economic News | Find Articles at BNET.com". web.archive.org. 20 April 2008. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Chandler, Clay (9 December 2000). "'Hello Kitty' Murder Case Horrifies Hong Kong". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  7. ^ a b News, A. B. C. "Life for 'Hello Kitty' Killers". ABC News. Retrieved 23 January 2022. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  8. ^ Wilson, Dave J. "Human Pork Chop (2001) and the Hello Kitty Murder". Retrieved 23 January 2022.
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