DNA tests have confirmed that the human remains found on February 23 in a house on the outskirts of Hong Kong belong to the popular Chinese model Abby Choi. The 28-year-old girl, reported missing two days earlier, was allegedly murdered and dismembered by her former husband -Alex Wong- and his family. The police found the skull and the two legs in the fridge of a house that had been rented by his ex-father-in-law.
The find was most macabre. The head was inside a stockpot with broth and vegetables, along with the ribs and hair of the victim. Investigators also found a meat slicer, an electric saw and some clothing allegedly related to the case. Then began the work to identify the body, as well as the search for the parts of the body that have not appearedsuch as the torso and hands.
Choi’s ex-partner, as well as his parents and a brotherThey have been in preventive detention since last week, accused of murder and obstruction of justice. He has also been arrested a worker of a yacht company. Investigators discovered that the man was trying to help the victim’s ex-husband flee to Macao, in exchange for 300,000 Hong Kong dollars (about 36,000 euros).
Why did they kill her?
According to the local press, the motive would have been financial and the mastermind of the plot to assassinate her would have been the model’s ex-father-in-law. They had a dispute over a property valued at almost 10 million of US dollars. In fact, the daily South China Morning Post publishes this Tuesday that the mother of Abby Choi Tin-fung has requested a court order to prohibit the sale of the property.
It would be a luxury apartment located in the upscale Kadoorie Hill neighborhood, which her daughter would have bought in the name of the Kwong Kau (her husband’s father). Cheung Yin-fa has appealed to the High Court to prevent the man, a 65-year-old former police officer, “disposing, transferring, charging, disposing or dealing with the apartment without his consent or prior knowledge of him.”
Choi’s Profile
The victim’s environment – reports the aforementioned newspaper – ensures that the model had bought the Kadoorie Hill apartment in the name of her ex-father-in-law, but that recently he wanted to sell it and relocate his ex-partner’s parents somewhere else.
From the statements of a friend of the model, it is clear that the girl came from a wealthy family, with businesses in the construction sector, and that “He took great care of everyone”. That included the parents of his former partner, who do not seem to have paid him in kind.
Everything indicates that his ex-in-laws will spend a long time behind bars for his murder. The two children he had with Alex Wong They have been left in the custody of the model’s mother and have their needs covered. choi had a net worth of about 100 million Hong Kong dollars (about €12 million), collects the local press.
She had become an internationally sought-after model, even participating in the spring-summer 2023 haute couture show in Elie Saab in Paris. He had recently appeared on the cover of The Official Monaco, which he uploaded to his Instagram on February 15. That was his last post.