Latest in a line of gruesome cases

The Hello Kitty case was the latest in a series of gruesome court cases over the past 17 years. Here are some earlier cases.

The 'jars' killer, 1982: Taxi driver Lam Kor-wan strangled a woman passenger on February 3, 1982, took her body to his home in Kwei Chau Street, To Kwa Wan, stripped it, then photographed and dissected it before returning to work. Lam also murdered three other women and videoed himself committing sexual acts with the corpses, before hiding their body parts in jars at his home.

He was captured as he picked up photographs of his dismembered victims. He said he had taken the photographs because he 'wanted the world to see them'. The court heard that, as a child, he had been severely beaten by his father.

On April 8, 1983, Lam was sentenced to death by a High Court judge for the murder of Chan Fung-lan, Chan Wan-kit, Leung Sau-wan and Leung Wai-sum. In August the following year, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

Husband's body cooked, 1988: Plastics factory owner Fu Tong, 57, was chopped into pieces and cooked by his wife, Ma Kit-chi, 58, in their Kornhill flat following an argument on the night of February 21, 1988. Ma, who had been married to Fu for more than 28 years, suspected her husband was having an affair on the mainland. She tied him to their bed and begged him to be faithful. When she untied one of his hands to let him eat, Fu resisted and Ma bludgeoned him over the head with a hammer.

The next day, she used an electric saw to cut Fu into seven pieces, boiled them and dumped them in a Quarry Bay rubbish tip. Ma was sentenced to be held in Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre indefinitely.