Yoga instructor, 23, found dead with 30 stab and cut wounds in bathtub at 5-star Hong Kong hotel
- Victim’s unemployed ex-boyfriend arrested on suspicion of murder after handing over hotel room keys to police
- Woman suffered more than 30 knife wounds to her limbs and body according to forensic pathologist
Hong Kong police have arrested a jobless man on suspicion of killing his former girlfriend after she was found dead, with multiple stab and cut wounds, in a bathtub at a five-star hotel.
The body of Chow Wai-yin, a 23-year-old yoga instructor also known as Aqua Chow, was discovered in one of the rooms in The Ritz Carlton hotel in Kowloon West shortly after 10pm on Thursday, hours after her mother reported her missing.
Assistant Yau Tsim district commander (crime), Superintendent Gar Kam-lam, said on Friday that officers detected signs of fighting and blood in the hotel room.
“The deceased was found in a bathtub that was filled with [bloody water] and her head was also submerged in water,” he said.
A knife believed to be the weapon used in the attack was also found in the bathtub, he said.
“An initial examination by a forensic pathologist shows that the victim suffered more than 30 knife wounds to the limbs and her body in the front and back,” the superintendent said.
Gar said possible fatal wounds included eight stab wounds to the left side of the victim’s chest and a cut wound to the throat.