HONG KONG — The ex-husband and former in-laws of a slain Hong Kong mannequin and influencer appeared in court docket Monday on a joint homicide cost after police discovered her physique components in a fridge.
The ex-husband Alex Kwong, his father Kwong Kau and his brother Anthony Kwong have been charged with murdering mannequin Abby Choi. His mom Jenny Li faces one depend of perverting the course of justice. The 4 have been positioned in custody with out bail.
Choi, 28, was a mannequin and influencer who shared her glamorous lifetime of photograph shoots and style reveals with greater than 100,000 followers on Instagram. Wearing a tulle floor-length robe, she had simply attended a Dior present at Paris Style Week.
Her final put up was greater than per week in the past, that includes a photoshoot she had carried out with L’Officiel Monaco, a style publication.
Choi had monetary disputes involving tens of hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong {dollars} along with her ex-husband and his household, police stated earlier, including that “some folks” have been sad with how Choi dealt with her monetary belongings.
Her good friend, Bernard Cheng, stated she has 4 kids: two sons ages 10 and three and two daughters ages 8 and 6. The elder two have been with Kwong, 28, and the youthful kids have been along with her present husband, Chris Tam.
Tam stated he was very grateful to have had Choi in his life and praised her for being supportive, good friend Pao Jo-yee relayed in a Fb put up.
“When Abby was alive, she’s a really variety individual and at all times needed to assist folks,” he was quoted within the put up. “I really feel anybody who could possibly be her household and mates are blessed.”
Pao, who’s married to Cheng, advised The Related Press that she has identified Choi for over seven years and Choi handled folks round her effectively.
“She is that kind of person who wouldn’t have enemies,” she stated.
Cheng stated Choi had superb relationships along with her relations and would journey with the households of her present and former husbands collectively. Choi’s present father-in-law is a founding father of one of many metropolis’s well-known noodle chains, native newspaper The Customary reported.
Choi had been lacking for a number of days when police discovered her dismembered physique and paperwork Friday, together with her legs in a fridge, in the home in Lung Mei Tsuen, a suburban a part of Hong Kong a couple of 30-minute drive from the border with mainland China.
Her case is without doubt one of the most stunning, violent killings Hong Kong has seen since 2013, when a person killed his mother and father and their heads have been later present in fridges. In one other well-known 1999 case, a lady was kidnapped and tortured by three members from an organized crime group earlier than her demise. Her cranium was later discovered stuffed in a Hiya Kitty doll.
The grotesque killing of Choi has gripped many in Hong Kong because the southern Chinese language metropolis is broadly thought of protected with a really low stage of violent crime. Throughout the border in mainland China, on-line dialogue over her case went viral on social media.
On Sunday, authorities found a younger girl’s cranium believed to be Choi’s in one of many cooking pots that was seized. Officers consider {that a} gap on the correct rear of the cranium is the place the deadly assault struck her.
The listening to of the homicide case was adjourned to Could.