Abby Choi’s post-mortem report is a frightening proof of her tragic dying.
Choi, 28, was reported lacking on Wednesday, February twenty second, and items of her physique have been discovered on Friday, February twenty fourth, together with a meat slicer, an electrical noticed, and a few clothes at a unit within the Tai Po district.
Police superintendent Alan Chung mentioned at a press convention on Saturday that the mannequin’s ex-husband, Alex Kwong, had been arrested whereas attempting to flee at a pier in Tung Chung, on one of many metropolis’s outlying islands, Lantau, and brought into custody.
Alex Kwong was charged with homicide on Sunday, together with Kwong’s brother and father, in line with a neighborhood broadcaster. Choi’s former mother-in-law was accused of obstructing proof within the surprising case.
All 4 of them have been denied bail.
Three days after the mannequin, who just lately appeared on the digital cowl of L’Officiel Monaco vogue journal, went lacking, police discovered two feminine legs in a fridge and two cooking pots containing human tissue.
In addition they discovered a meat slicer and an electrical noticed on the scene.
The post-mortem report revealed that Choi suffered a big gap in her cranium behind her proper ear, which a tough object could have triggered.
“After we discovered the 2 pots of soup on the scene, one of many pots measuring 50cm [20 inches] deep and 40cm [16 inches] in diameter, was virtually full and coated with thick fats, some inexperienced radishes and carrots and meat believed to be human flesh,” Police Superintendent Alan Chung mentioned.
The police found two feminine legs in a fridge at an condominium that Kwong Kau had solely rented days earlier than.
Police superintendent Alan Chung mentioned investigators honed in on the landfill after the suspects allegedly “threw away a number of baggage of vital proof within the morning of Feb. 22,” in line with the outlet. He added that investigators suspect the baggage could include “some human physique components, or they could possibly be the garments and the telephone of the sufferer, and even the homicide weapons.”
Hong Kong police mentioned Choi’s decapitated head had been boiled till solely the cranium remained, the Occasions of London reported.
Choi had remarried after getting divorced from her first husband and alleged assassin, Alex Kwong.
Choi was a mom of 4 youngsters, ages 3-10. Ex-husband Kwong, 28, fathered the elder two. She shared the others with Tam, whom the mannequin reportedly married in 2016.
Who was Abby Choi?
Choi was a mannequin and influencer who shared her glamorous lifetime of photograph shoots and vogue exhibits on Instagram.
Earlier than her killing, Choi, who had labored with vogue manufacturers like Dior and Chanel, documented her life as a globetrotting model influencer on Instagram.
She shared numerous couture seems and snaps with luminaries like rapper Pharrell Williams, South Korean mannequin Lee Soo-hyuk and Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad.
“Embracing each second of life,” reads the bio of Choi’s account, which had 139,000 followers as of Wednesday.
L’Officiel Monaco described Choi as a vogue icon and media character whereas noting the trendsetter’s “impeccable sense of fashion” and boundless ardour for vogue.
Police in Hong Kong is looking out the North East New Territories Landfill in Hong Kong’s rural Ta Kwu Ling part for proof linked to Choi’s slaying, together with her lacking arms and torso.
