Hong Kong
CNN
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4 members of the identical household charged in reference to the grotesque killing of Hong Kong mannequin Abby Choi appeared in courtroom Monday, after police mentioned they discovered what are believed to be components of her dismembered physique, public broadcaster RTHK reported.
Choi’s ex-husband Alex Kwong, 28, his brother Anthony, 31, and their father, Kwong Kau, 65, are charged along with her homicide. Alex Kwong’s mom Jenny Li, 63, is charged with perverting the course of justice, RTHK reported.
All 4 had been denied bail, the Kowloon Metropolis Magistrates’ Court docket dominated Monday, in keeping with RTHK. They’re but to enter a plea.
On Sunday, investigators recognized a cranium, a number of ribs and hair in a big chrome steel soup pot believed to be Choi’s stays, police mentioned. Different physique components, together with Choi’s torso and fingers, stay lacking.
It follows a police investigation that started Wednesday after Choi, 28, was reported lacking. Two days later, components of her physique had been discovered at a home within the metropolis’s Tai Po district, police mentioned. A meat slicer, an electrical noticed, and a few clothes had been additionally discovered on the dwelling, police mentioned.
Choi’s ex-husband was arrested on Saturday at a ferry pier on one of many metropolis’s outlying islands, police mentioned. His brother and his dad and mom had been arrested on Friday.
A fifth suspect, a 47-yer previous lady, was arrested on Sunday in reference to the case, police mentioned.
Choi, a mannequin and social media influencer with greater than 100,000 followers on Instagram, just lately appeared because the digital cowl mannequin for luxurious journal L’Officiel Monaco and attended this 12 months’s Paris Trend Week.
The courtroom adjourned the case till Might 8 to permit for additional police investigation, RTHK reported.