Woman arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of butchering cat for food
- Police called after tenant sees woman carrying unknown sharp object and cat carcass
- Source says officers found dead cat and knife in bucket of water outside bathroom of flat
Police have arrested a woman on suspicion of butchering a cat for food after its bloodstained carcass was found at a Hong Kong public housing flat on Wednesday.
Officers were called to the seventh floor of Kin Tin House at Pak Tin Estate in Shek Kip Mei after receiving a report from a tenant soon after 9.45am.
“The resident saw a woman carrying an unknown sharp object and a cat carcass and then reported the case,” a police spokesman said.
Investigators believed she had picked up the carcass in the district and brought it home, the spokesman added.
Officers found the 58-year-old woman involved in a seventh-floor flat. She initially refused to open the door and officers could only enter the flat to investigate after she later granted them entry.
“In the flat, police found a dead cat and a knife in a bucket of water outside the bathroom,” a source familiar with the case said, adding no obvious injuries were found on the animal.