In 1999, 23-year-old Hong Kong nightclub hostess Fan Man-yee was kidnapped by three males—Chan Man-lok, Leung Wai-lun, and Leung Shing-cho—after she stole Chan’s pockets containing roughly HK$4,000 (roughly US$500).
Chan demanded that Fan return the cash together with an extra charge of HK$10,000 (roughly US$1,300).
Though Fan shortly returned the stolen quantity, she advised Chan she wanted extra time to assemble the additional charge.
In search of retribution, the trio kidnapped Fan and held her captive in an condo on Granville Highway in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Throughout her month-long captivity, Fan was overwhelmed with metallic bars, generally whereas strung up and used as a punching bag.
On one event, she was kicked within the head roughly fifty occasions.
The captors rubbed spices into her wounds and burned her legs and toes with candle wax and scorching plastic, leaving her unable to stroll.
In a sickening twist, the lads pressured Fan to smile and declare she loved the beatings.
When she refused, the torture intensified.
Fan in the end succumbed to her accidents between April 14 and April 15, 1999.
In a grotesque effort to hide the crime, her captors dismembered and boiled her stays, putting her cranium inside a big Hiya Kitty mermaid doll.
The three males had been arrested and convicted of manslaughter, every receiving a life sentence with the potential of parole after 20 years.
In a disturbing twist, the Hiya Kitty homicide impressed the manufacturing of two horror movies – Human Pork Chop and There’s a Secret in My Soup, each launched in 2001.
In April 2014, one of many perpetrators, Leung Shing-cho, was launched from jail after serving a decreased sentence.
Nonetheless, in August 2022, he was imprisoned once more for assaulting a 10-year-old woman.
As of 2024, Chan Man-lok and Leung Wai-lun stay incarcerated.
To today, the Hiya Kitty homicide stays one of the notorious and disturbing crimes in Hong Kong’s historical past.
