Police search landfill after Abby Choi, Hong Kong mannequin, discovered dismembered

Hong Kong — Hong Kong police started looking a landfill Tuesday for proof associated to the grisly killing of mannequin Abby Choi, whose dismembered physique elements had been present in a fridge and pots. Ex-husband Alex Kwong, his father Kwong Kau and his brother Anthony Kwong had been charged with homicide after police discovered her stays in a home rented by Kwong Kau in a suburban a part of Hong Kong close to the border with mainland China.

Alex Kwong’s mom, Jenny Li, faces one depend of perverting the course of justice. All 4 had been detained with out bail.

They haven’t but entered their pleas, and it doesn’t seem that their legal professionals have commented on the case to the media. The listening to was adjourned till May.
 
On Tuesday morning, greater than 100 officers carrying protecting gear went to North East New Territories Landfill in Ta Kwu Ling, a few 15-minute drive from mainland China, to seek for the lacking physique elements with excavators and shovels. Police had mentioned earlier they had been nonetheless in search of her fingers and torso.
 
“The suspects threw away several bags of important evidence in the morning of Feb. 22. They may be some human body parts or they could be the clothes and the phone of the victim, or even the weapons,” Superintendent Alan Chung informed reporters.

Chung mentioned they may not discover something substantial but, apart from bones, which police couldn’t confirm in the event that they belonged to a human or animals.

Choi’s household, wearing black, gathered close to the home the place her physique elements had been discovered to pay respects. They earlier visited a mortuary to establish her. Some mourners had been emotional however the household didn’t seem to have responded to reporters’ questions.
 
Alex Kwong appeared in one other courtroom Tuesday for a earlier theft case, the place he jumped bail.
 
Another girl who had been arrested for allegedly aiding different suspects within the case was launched on bail pending additional investigation, police mentioned. She was believed to have been in an affair with the ex-husband’s father, the drive mentioned earlier.
 
Choi, who had greater than 100,000 followers on Instagram, disappeared Feb. 21, based on a report filed later with the Hong Kong Police. Her final submit was Feb. 19, that includes a photograph shoot she had performed with vogue journal L’Officiel Monaco.
 
Choi had monetary disputes involving tens of hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong {dollars} (hundreds of thousands of {dollars}) together with her ex-husband and his household, police mentioned, including that “some people” had been sad with how Choi dealt with her funds.

The ugly killing has transfixed many in Hong Kong and throughout the border in mainland China, because the semiautonomous southern Chinese metropol is has a really low degree of violent crime.
 
Choi’s pal Bernard Cheng earlier mentioned he initially thought she had been kidnapped.
 
“I haven’t imagined a person who’s so good, so full of love, so innocent, a person who doesn’t do anything bad will be killed like this,” he mentioned. “My heart is still heavy. I can’t sleep well.”
 
Cheng mentioned Choi had 4 kids, aged between 3 and 10. Alex Kwong, 28, was the daddy of the older two, who’re being taken care of by Choi’s mom. Choi had remarried to Chris Tam, father of the youthful kids, who’re staying along with his household.
 
Choi had good relationships together with her household, together with her in-laws, Cheng mentioned, and would journey with the households of her present and former husbands collectively.
 
While violent crime is uncommon in Hong Kong, the case remembers a handful of different stunning killings. In 2013, a person killed his mother and father and their heads had been later present in fridges. In one other notorious 1999 case, a girl was kidnapped and tortured by three members of an organized crime group earlier than her dying. Her cranium was later discovered stuffed in a Hello Kitty doll.