Fan Man-yee, a 23-year-old mother, endured a month of unspeakable torment and abuse before meeting her tragic demise. On March 17, 1999, she was forcibly taken from her apartment by Leung Shing-cho and transported to Chan Man-lok’s residence on Granville Road in Hong Kong.
Chan, a loan shark involved in drug manufacturing, held a grudge against Fan for her involvement in a robbery where she stole a wallet containing $4,000 HKD from him. Although she repaid the principal amount plus $10,000 in interest, it failed to satisfy Chan’s demands. He insisted on an additional $16,000 in interest, an amount Fan simply could not afford.
The initial plan was to detain Fan in the apartment until she received her social security payment or generated enough money through sex work. However, the moment she crossed the apartment threshold, a nightmarish ordeal of inhuman torture commenced at the hands of Leung, Chan, and another accomplice, Leung Wai-lun.
Fan endured relentless beatings with fists and water pipes, burning from melted plastic and direct flames. The perpetrators subjected her to the degrading act of being forced to consume urine and feces. They strung her up by her hands on multiple occasions, viciously assaulting her with a table leg or iron bar until her fingers were shattered, and her face was a grotesque mask of blood. The sadistic tormentors would frequently pour chili oil into her wounds, inflicting agonizing pain.
After enduring a month of unimaginable suffering, Fan tragically succumbed to her horrific injuries. Her lifeless body was dismembered in the bathtub, her flesh stripped away, and her entrails brutally removed. To compound the macabre nature of the case, her decapitated head was boiled and concealed inside a Hello Kitty doll, leading to the grim moniker of “The Hello Kitty Murder.”
A month later, a 13-year-old girl who had been groomed by one of the killers turned herself in to the police. Haunted by Fan’s ghost, she confessed to her participation in the torture. The relentless presence of Fan’s spirit deprived her of sleep, plaguing her with terrifying nightmares.
Acting on the information provided, authorities discovered Fan’s decomposed heart, lungs, liver, and intestines in a bag on the first-floor canopy over Granville Road. In exchange for her testimony and immunity, the teenage girl cooperated with the investigation.
The trio responsible for Fan’s heinous fate were subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.