The Hello Kitty Murder

Anushka
2 min readMay 8, 2023

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Hello kitty plush

The decapitated head of a woman was found sewn into a giant Hello Kitty doll...

The rest of her body was missing.

Hello Kitty hidden body case took place in Hong Kong in the spring of 1999, when a nightclub hostess was abducted in Lai Yiu Estate, where the victim was tortured and raped in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui after stealing a wallet owned by one of her frequent customers.

No. 31, 3rd Floor, Block B Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

Fan Man-ye was held captive by three men ( Chan Man-lok, Leung Wai-lun ,Leung Shing-cho, and a girl) before dying between April 14 to April 15, 1999.

Fan Man-ye

There were numerous of weapons used such as Metal pipes, kitchen utensils, hot wax, melted plastic, spices. Her body was decapitated and her skull placed inside of a Hello Kitty plush, which gave the name for the murder case.

Verdict of the court — guilty of manslaughter. Life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 20 years Leung Shing-cho Commuted to 18 years in prison.

The apartment building in which the crime took place was demolished in September 2012 and has been rebuilt as a hotel named Soravit in 2016.

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Anushka

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