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Foreigner in Hong Kong charged with killing South-east Asian domestic worker

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HONG KONG – The authorities in Hong Kong on Oct 31 charged a foreign man with murdering a 25-year-old South-east Asian woman, whose body was found at the foot of a waterfall.

The woman was found in a pond in Waterfall Bay Park on Oct 28 and pronounced dead at the scene, with police later saying she had head wounds.

The victim was a domestic worker who was not employed by the suspect, police said.

The 34-year-old foreign man was arrested a day later along with his wife, a 36-year-old from Hong Kong, when they returned from China.

The man was identified as a British businessman by Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. The British consulate did not immediately respond to an AFP query about the case.

The woman’s death was classified as murder because “the evidence did not appear to suggest a natural death”, police superintendent Sin Kwok-ming previously told reporters.

An initial post-mortem examination “detected injuries on her head and the cause of death was asphyxiation by drowning”, police added.

Police said the two suspects went to the waterfall together on Oct 27 night but after half an hour, the man left alone.

He did not contact the police and immediately left Hong Kong, which Superintendent Sin described as “unreasonable” moves.

The authorities said the male suspect, who is due in court on Nov 1, held a Hong Kong ID card but did not give his name or specify his nationality.

His wife was arrested for assisting offenders and released on bail, on the condition that she reports to a police station in November.

There are more than 350,000 migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, with many coming from South-east Asian countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia.

The Asian Migrants Coordinating Body, an advocacy group, on Oct 30 expressed its “deepest sorrow and anger” over the case. AFP



Foreigner in Hong Kong charged with killing South-east Asian domestic worker

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