Policemen on boats in Hong Kong on July 1, 2022.
Hong Kong – Police in Hong Kong have arrested four people and charged three of them in connection with the brutal murder of a model whose legs were found this week in a refrigerator at a house several kilometers outside the city. The body of 28-year-old Abby Choi was apparently dismembered, and investigators are still finding other body parts. The suspects are the ex-husband and members of his family, reports the BBC news website.
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According to the Reuters agency, the case is filling the pages of local tabloids, which are still reporting on the gruesome details of the ongoing investigation. Many servers warn the reader in the header of the articles that the text contains such frightening information that they should consider further reading.
The South China Morning Post reported today that police discovered other parts of the young woman's dismembered body, including ribs and a head in a soup pot in a house in Tai Po village.
Choi recently appeared on the digital front page of a fashion and lifestyle magazine L'Officiel Monaco and in Hong Kong she is written about as a well-known member of the local cream. She was reported missing on Wednesday, and on Friday police found her legs along with tools that could have been used to dismember the body. On the same day, the police detained the parents of Choi's ex-husband and his older brother, and on Saturday, the 28-year-old ex-husband was also arrested on suspicion of murder when, according to the police, he tried to leave Hong Kong by boat.
The father and the older brother of the pair is already facing murder charges, reports the South China Morning Post. The victim's ex-mother-in-law was charged with obstruction of justice.
“We believe the victim and her ex-husband's family had a series of financial disagreements involving large sums of money,” said Police Chief Alan Chung. “Someone was not satisfied with the way the victim was handling her property, and that became the motive for killing her,” he said.
