The last of the Hello Kitty killers, originally jailed for life, was sentenced to 18 years' jail yesterday for his role in one of Hong Kong's most gruesome manslaughter cases.
In jailing Leung Shing-cho, 29, Mr Justice Thomas Gall, sitting in the Court of First Instance, said the only mitigating factor he could consider was his guilty plea.
'Suffice to say that ... this is a very serious case of manslaughter,' he said.
Victim Fan Man-yee, 23, was last seen alive by her mother and two-year-old son when she was escorted from her home on March 17, 1999, by Leung, 29, a Wo Shing Wo triad member, after she failed to repay a $4,000 debt that had spiralled to $30,000.
On May 26 that year, police found Fan's decomposed heart, lungs, liver and intestines in a plastic bag on a first-floor canopy over Granville Road.
Inside an apartment upstairs, they recovered her skull, which had been sewn inside a Hello Kitty doll, as well as a tooth.