An ex-husband and a father charged with the murder of a Hong Kong model abby Choi in the tampered with justice case
Four members of the same family charged in connection with the gruesome killing of Hong Kong model Abby Choi appeared in court Monday, after police said they found what are believed to be parts of her dismembered body, public broadcaster RTHK reported.
Choi’s ex-husband Alex Kwong, 28, his brother Anthony, 31, and their father, Kwong Kau, 65, are charged with her murder. Jenny Li is accused of tampering with the course of justice.
Chung said at Sunday’s news conference that authorities found a young woman’s skull in one of the cooking pots they seized. A small number of bones were found in a second pot.
The man arrested at the ferry pier on one of the city’soutlying islands was an ex-husband of Choi’s. His brother and his parents were arrested on Friday.
Choi, a model and social media influencer with more than 100,000 followers on Instagram, recently appeared as the digital cover model for luxury magazine L’Officiel Monaco and attended this year’s Paris Fashion Week.
The case gripped the city over the weekend as grisly details of the investigation dominated headlines in local media and thousands of people left condolences on Choi’s social media accounts.
Associated murders of a model model and influencer whose body parts had been found in a refrigerator and a skull at a rural house
HONG KONG — Police in Hong Kong filed murder charges against the former father-in-law and brother-in-law of a model and influencer whose body parts were found in a refrigerator and a skull believed to be hers in a pot at a rural house.
Chung said earlier that some people were unhappy with how she handled her financial assets.
Chung said that Choi was unconscious when she arrived at the house and that she was attacked in a car. Police were still trying to find out the exact time of death and locate her hands and torso.
Another woman believed to have been in an affair with the father of the ex-husband who was arrested on Sunday is believed to have aided the other suspects. Chung said the woman had rented the house together with the father, as well as another place to hide the ex-husband.