The infamous case of the Hello Kitty killers will finally close today when the last of the accused is sentenced after pleading guilty to manslaughter at his retrial yesterday.
Leung Shing-cho - a member of the gang who subjected young mother Fan Man-yee to weeks of horrific torture, then dismembered her body, stuffed her head in a Hello Kitty doll and threw her internal organs out of a window - told the court he would donate his organs after he died.
Leung's counsel, Richard Donald, told Mr Justice Thomas Gall his client was ready to face up to his responsibility for Fan's gruesome death five years ago. He quoted from psychiatric reports that found his formerly anti-social client's personality had improved.
Mr Donald said: 'He accepts the crime he took part in was totally horrendous. He is not the man he was; he is a reformed person.'
Leung, 29, was initially jailed for life in December 2000 along with co-accused Chan Man-lok, 29, and Leung Wai-lun, 23, after a Court of First Instance jury cleared them of murder but convicted them of manslaughter over the death of Fan, 23, in April 1999.
The killing was reported to the police by a teenage witness, who was haunted by nightmares.
Last May, the Court of Appeal overturned Leung Shing-cho's conviction and ordered a retrial on a charge of manslaughter after finding trial judge Mr Justice Peter Nguyen had misdirected the jury in his summing up.