Australian police to offer almost HK$6 million for information in case of HK couple’s daughter who was abducted from their home in 1991

Australian police are set to revive the hunt for the killer of schoolgirl Karmein Chan with a A$1 million (HK$5.9 million) reward for information to be announced on the 25th anniversary of the day she was abducted and later murdered.

Victoria police will on Wednesday – exactly a quarter of a century after the 13-year-old daughter of a Hong Kong couple was snatched from their Melbourne home – ­increase the reward more than threefold from HK$1.7 million in the hope that the public will come forward with vital new leads, the Sunday Morning Post understands.

Investigators remain focused on catching a serial child sex-offender dubbed “Mr Cruel” and believe his twisted activities are responsible for the murder of Chan and the abduction and ­assault of at least three and possibly several more ­victims in the 1980s and 90s.

The Chan family had moved to Melbourne from Hong Kong 15 year’s before Karmein’s abduction. On April 13, 1991, a man in a balaclava stormed into the Chans’ home where Karmein was babysitting her two younger sisters while parents John and Phyllis were at work in a Chinese ­restaurant.

He forced Karmein’s two younger sisters into a wardrobe before fleeing with the teenager. He left no ransom ­demand.