When a chopped-up body was found in a trunk of salt in Hong Kong, and the victim’s live-in lover was arrested
- A 22-year-old man’s dismembered body, minus an arm and a leg, was found in a flat in 1999; his common-law wife, Yik Po-man, and their daughter were missing
- Yik was arrested in Mong Kok and, charged with manslaughter, testified the man had raped her when she was a schoolgirl. Convicted, she was jailed for 10 years
“Chopped-up body found in trunkful of salt,” read a headline in the South China Morning Post on February 15, 1999.
“A man’s dismembered body was found buried in salt and stuffed in a metal trunk in a flat in Tuen Mun yesterday,” the report went on.
“Cheung Wai-man, 22, was found in his Tai Hing Estate home after his younger brother, 17, and a friend, unable to contact him for several days, raised the alarm.
“Cheung’s common-law wife [Yik Po-man, 19] and [three-year-old] daughter were missing, police said.”
On February 23, 2000, the Post reported that Yik “was arrested at around 6am in a flat in Shanghai Street, Mongkok. She was with her daughter.”
A Post report a day later stated that Yik had “chopped her live-in lover to death and kept part of his corpse in a box of salt in a bedroom of their home”.
