Just a month ago, Abby Choi was at Paris fashion week rubbing shoulders with the capital’s jet set at a Dior party. This is demonstrated by the stories that she uploaded to her Instagram account, where she has 110,000 followers. Her last post on that social network was just over a week ago, when she shared a screenshot of the cover of the Parisian magazine L’Officiel Monaco in which she appeared wearing a dress by Tunisian stylist Souhir El Gabsi and jewelry by Anna Hu, the designer who has become one of the jewelers of reference for New York stars.
After her walk in Paris, Choi, a 28-year-old model and influencer from Hong Kong, returned to Hong Kong. She there she lost track of him on February 22. Her family then reported her disappearance. Nothing more was heard from her until a couple of days later, when the police found part of her body, mutilated, in an apartment she had rented in the north of the city.
Someone had dismembered the model and scattered her remains throughout the house. Her dismembered legs were in a freezer, her ribs in a bag, and her head in a steel pot. The agents found, along with the remains, a meat grinder, a hammer and an electric saw. The spotlight quickly turned to Choi’s former in-laws, whom she had been divorced since 2017.
On Saturday, the model’s ex-husband, Alex Kwong, was arrested at the pier on one of Hong Kong’s outlying islands. Police Superintendent Alan Chung, during a press conference held to explain the progress of the case, said that Kwong was trying to flee on a jet ski. A day earlier, the brother and parents of the model’s ex-husband had been detained while police continued to search the rented apartment and other parts of the city for more remains of the body, including the torso and hands, which are still missing.
The notes of the investigation that have been collected by local media such as the South China Morning Post newspaper reveal that Choi was involved in a financial dispute with her ex-husband’s family over a luxury property in Kadoori Hill, one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the city. former British colony. No further details have yet been released. On Sunday the last images of Choi were published, thanks to the captures of some CCTV cameras, in which she appears walking on the street on Tuesday afternoon. The model was going to pick up her daughter from school. She never showed up at the center.
On Monday, ex-husband Alex Kwong, his brother Anthony and their father, a former police officer named Kwong Kau, appeared in a Hong Kong court on charges of murder. The victim’s former mother-in-law, Jenny Li, also remains in custody because the agents accuse her of “perverting the course of justice”, in reference to the fact that she would have hindered the police investigation by hiding relevant information about the case. All four defendants have been denied bail.
Choi and her ex-husband Kwong got married when they both just turned 18. They had two children, an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old. With her current partner, Tam Chuk Kwan, the model had two other children. “She raised four beautiful and obedient children. It has been a blessing to be Abby’s family or friend. She was a good person with a good heart who always wanted to help others,” Tam told the media over the weekend through a family friend.
The murder of Abby Choi had been a trend on Weibo for two days, the Chinese brother of Twitter, with more than 300 million visits, until Sunday afternoon, when the news broke that her head had been found decapitated in the pot , the topic hashtag has been removed.
The What’s on Weibo website, which monitors the daily activity of the most famous social network in the Asian giant, highlighted that for many users this terrible event reminded them of another that also occurred a decade ago in Hong Kong: a 63-year-old couple was murdered by her son, who dismembered the corpses, cooked them and kept them in the fridge.
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