Hong Kong’s Hello Kitty murder case: when a young woman was killed and her dismembered body found in three bags
- Nightclub employee Fan Man-yee, 23, was held captive for weeks, tortured and murdered in a flat in Tsim Sha Tsui, in Hong Kong, in 1999
- Her body was found in three bags, with her skull in a Hello Kitty doll. Three men were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal crime
“The dismembered body of a woman nightclub employee was found stuffed in three bags scattered around a flat and on a canopy in Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui,” reported the South China Morning Post on May 27, 1999.
“Detective Superintendent Tse Keung said early investigations revealed the woman could have been murdered after a dispute over drug-trafficking proceeds.”
The next day, the Post reported that “detectives […] were still searching for other parts of the dismembered body of Fan Man-yee, 23”.
According to a May 30 report, “two men appeared in South Kowloon Court yesterday charged with the murder […] on an unspecified date in April. Chan Man-lok, 33, unemployed, and hairdresser Leung Shing-cho, 26, were remanded in custody.”
It emerged that Fan’s severed head was hidden in a Hello Kitty doll.
