A man was tortured for 3 weeks, murdered then dumped at a pier in 2004
A security guard with a mild mental handicap was subjected to brutality by a group that included former friends – and a 15-year-old girl
“Eleven people, including a 15-year-old girl, were arrested yesterday over the murder of a mentally handicapped man who police believe died after being tortured,” reported the South China Morning Post on March 13, 2004. “Police said they thought the victim had been tortured for several weeks over a dispute about money with some of the suspects.
“‘The victim had allegedly been punched, kicked and also beaten with water pipes on different occasions in three different residential units in Shamshuipo,’ an officer said. ‘He was last beaten on Sunday night before he was driven to Hunghom and dumped in a street near the ferry pier.’
“Six men and three women – several of whom are also mentally handicapped – were rounded up when about 90 officers raided 19 homes in Kowloon, the New Territories and Lantau. The suspects were aged between 15 and 38. Some of those arrested are believed to have been friends with the victim, Wong Wai-hung, 27. His body was found lying between two cars near the Wah Shun Street ferry pier in Hunghom at 6.30am on Monday.
“Wong, who had a mild mental handicap, worked as a security guard but quit the job last month, a police source said. He had moved out of his family’s apartment in Shekkipmei several years ago and lived with a friend in Shamshuipo. His parents called the police after seeing photos of him in newspapers.”
Two years later, on January 4, 2006, the Post reported: “A man was jailed for life yesterday for the murder of a security guard who was subjected to repeated beatings over a three-week period. Lin Siu-lun, 33, was sentenced to life behind bars for murdering 27-year-old Wong Wai-hung, a mildly retarded security guard whose body was found dumped in Wah Shun Street, Hunghom, on the morning of March 8, 2004.
“Wong had been beaten for a period of almost three weeks over a $6,700 debt. A postmortem examination revealed more than 100 wounds on his back alone. Lin and eight other people involved in Wong’s death and the subsequent dumping of his body were sentenced by Mr Justice Pang Kin-kee in the Court of First Instance.
