Man arrested for murder after being caught with girlfriend’s quilt-wrapped body on Hong Kong street
- Grisly incident came to light when joggers saw what appeared to be legs protruding from the rolled-up quilt on Tin Ha Road in Tin Shui Wai at about 6am
- Head of the deceased was wrapped with cling film and her hands were bound with a nylon rope, police spokesman says
Police have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of killing his girlfriend after he was spotted dragging a wheel board loaded with her quilt-wrapped body along a street in northern Hong Kong on Friday morning.
The grisly incident came to light when joggers saw what appeared to be legs protruding from the rolled-up quilt on Tin Ha Road in Tin Shui Wai at about 6am.
“As I was jogging, I saw him dragging [a wheel board]. He then stopped and it seemed he was exhausted and unable to roll it any further,” a female passer-by said while recalling her encounter with the suspect.
“When he was sorting out [the things on the wheel board], I saw a pair of legs. I then asked my husband to call police.”
The woman, who only gave her surname as Ying, said the suspect did not appear to panic. “He looked at us and continued to drag the wheel board.”
She said when officers arrived at the scene, he was ordered to step aside before being handcuffed.
Police said they believed the woman, 30, was killed in the man’s rented flat in Galore Garden – a low-rise housing estate – off Tin Ha Road and the body was loaded on the wheel board and dragged for about 500 metres before it was discovered.
Online footage shows some joggers and cyclists going past the suspect without noticing anything suspicious.