Yesterday morning a body was found in a rubbish collection centre dumpster in Mong Kok. The police have revealed that it belongs to a 15-year-old girl.
The body, discovered in a red-white-blue bag by a cleaner, was naked from the waist down. The girl’s head, neck and limbs were bound with adhesive tape and strips of plastic, reports the SCMP.
The police report neck injuries on the body, and an investigation revealed the girl had sexual intercourse and had been dead for a day.
The police have arrested a 34-year-old man for murder.
A police source told the SCMP that the suspect and victim are believed to have been in a “compensated” dating relationship, in which the girl had sexual relations with a man in exchange for cash and gifts.
The SCMP reports that the girl may have been killed “during a hotel sex game”, possibly at the Harbour Hotel on Canton Road in Mong Kok.
In contrast, Apple Daily claims that the teenager, having met the man through WeChat, went to his home to have her photo taken and was killed after she refused to have sex. The man then allegedly put her body in a suitcase, wheeled it to the Harbour Hotel, before taking her body to the rubbish collection centre the next morning.
The Harbour Hotel is located 300 metres away from where the body was found.
Apple Daily posted security camera footage that allegedly shows the man transporting the suitcase on a trolley in broad daylight yesterday morning, shortly before the crime was reported to the police.
The man, surnamed Liu, married in 2002, writes Apple Daily. Liu and his wife life in a subdivided unit on Kam Fong Street in Mong Kok while renting out a flat they bought for HKD2 million in Yau Ma Tei.
The newspaper says his mother is shocked at his arrest, and does not believe that he is capable of killing, saying that he won’t even harm small animals.
Though Liu apparently told his family he worked as a security guard for a bank, he told the police that he was unemployed.
According to Apple Daily, he worked with a property management agency in Kwun Tong but left the job two years ago.
Three weeks ago, he contacted the company saying he was leaving Hong Kong to go back to live on the mainland, and asked that his MPF (Mandatory Provident Fund) account be terminated.
Anyone with information about the crime should contact the investigating officers at (+852) 9181-5786.
Photo: Screenshot via AppleDaily.com
