Hong Kong model murder: details of human butcher shop emerge as police investigate killing
- Meat grinder, electric saw, soup pots with human tissue and legs stuffed into refrigerator found at home in quaint seaside community
- Former husband of Abby Choi now focus of citywide manhunt, while ex-brother-in-law and former parents-in-laws arrested
The village house where police have found parts of the corpse of a Hong Kong model had become a gruesome human butcher shop, officers have said after finding a meat grinder, electric saw, soup pots with human tissue, and legs stuffed into the refrigerator.
The former husband, 31 and jobless, was the focus of a citywide manhunt, while Choi’s ex-brother-in-law and the former parents-in-laws had been arrested.
Describing the killing as “premeditated” and “well-planned”, Superintendent Alan Chung Nga-lun of the Kowloon West regional crime unit said the ground-floor flat of the three-storey house in Tai Po’s Lung Mei Tsuen had been carefully prepared as a place to cut up a body.
“The body parts that we found were inside the refrigerator. There are two legs belonging to a female,” he said. “We are still looking for the head, the torso and hands, which we believed were disposed of.”
The flat had been rented by the victim’s former father-in-law, and instead of a furnished home, officers found a place starkly bare of furniture, with just a couch and a table inside.
The two bedrooms were also empty. In addition to the meat grinder, electric saw and two pots of soup containing human tissue, police found two types of chopper, a hammer, face shields, black raincoats and a purple handbag that belonged to Choi.