The radio host so convinced of some Hong Kong inmates' innocence she's reinvestigating their cases
Grace Woo is winning fans for her investigations into some of Hong Kong's most notorious crimes
A con artist posing as a film producer dupes starlets into having sex with him and then blackmails them. An unemployed man with serial-killer fantasies murders his parents, and cuts up and cooks their bodies while he figures out how to dispose of the parts. Such true crimes often fascinate us even as we are sickened by their inhumanity or cruelty. But for radio host Grace Woo Li-kan, it's a consuming interest that has turned into a career. This month, she even quit all her radio gigs to set up her own internet channel focusing on real crimes.
Woo first delved into these cases while working as a researcher on , a Commercial Radio programme that examined the most horrific crimes in Hong Kong and overseas.
Many things are not black and white; there's a lot of grey in between. My years of experience looking into these cases helps me better understand human nature
In the process, Woo became so convinced of some prisoners' innocence that she began investigating their cases in the hope of uncovering fresh evidence that might help to overturn their convictions.
"Of course, the chance of success is very slim, but from my research, I know that government-appointed defence lawyers can be quite weak," she says. "There have been miscarriages of justice, especially in cases that happened decades ago."
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