Exclusive | How Hong Kong police cracked the case of model Abby Choi’s grisly murder: vehicle GPS records and security camera footage led them to village house where body parts were found
- Police used GPS records of seven-seater car carrying slain model to track down location where 28-year-old was dismembered, source says
- Upon arriving in Lung Mei Tsuen, officers poured over dashcam and home surveillance footage to confirm crime scene of brutal murder, source adds
Hong Kong police uncovered the location of the Tai Po village house where model Abby Choi Tin-fung was dismembered by checking records from a vehicle’s global positioning system (GPS) and surveillance camera footage from multiple sources, the Post has learned.
More than 150 detectives from the force’s Kowloon West regional crime unit were tasked last Thursday afternoon with investigating the 28-year-old socialite’s disappearance after suspicions were raised by its missing persons unit.
Choi, a mother of four children, was reported missing on Tuesday last week. She was last seen at a luxury housing estate at the city’s exclusive Kadoorie Hill in Ho Man Tin on the same day. Her ex-husband, his parents and elder brother live in a flat there.
A review of closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage indicated she was picked up at the estate by a seven-seater car driven by her ex-brother-in-law, who worked as her chauffeur, before she went missing.
Police resorted to checking the vehicle’s GPS records and reviewing security camera footage to find Choi after her former in-laws proved uncooperative, according to one source.
