The Victim
The victim Fan Man-Yee was not a woman who found herself particularly heavily laden with luck even before she crossed paths with the group that would eventually brutally end her life. A young Man-Yee was abandoned by her parents when she was still an infant and raised in one of Hong Kong’s orphanages.
The Theft
After 2 years of plying her trade in this brothel, Fan Man-Yee was by all accounts something of a favourite among the establishment’s unsavoury clientele. One of her regular clients was the 34 year old Chang Man-Lok. 10 Man-Lok often asked for Man-Yee personally.
The Kidnapping
Chang Man-Lok knew that Fan Man-Yee had ample opportunities to escape: within 24 hours she could have fled to the United Kingdom, or disappeared deep into the Chinese mainland, and with her would disappear both his compensation and his pride’s satisfaction.
The Torture
At this point Chang Man-Lok, Leung Shing-Cho, and Leung Wai-Lun had a simple enough, albeit already abhorrent plan: establish the decrepit apartment up as a brothel, imprison Fan Man-Yee inside, and force her to have sex with clients of the gangsters choosing to pay off her debt.
The Murder
The inevitable finally happened on the 15th April 1999. The group went out to party and as per their routine, locked Fan Man-Yee in the bathroom so she couldn’t escape. When they returned Chang Man-Lok’s (lest we forget 13 year old) girlfriend went to use the toilet, and found Man-Yee dead in the bath.
The Arrest
Fortunately this is the part of the story where Chang Man-Lok’s now fourteen year old ‘girlfriend’ became consumed with guilt, as we discussed at the beginning of the episode. Whether or not she was actually seeing Fan Man-Yee’s ghost I will leave to Simon and you the audience to decide.
Wrap Up
Let us not just reduce the tragic case of Fan Man-Yee into a gruesome spectacle for us to gawk at. Remember her name, remember her image, and remember her tragic tale.
What happened to the Hello Kitty murder?
The police dismissed the girl before she revealed that the haunting was a direct result of her participation in the torture and eventual murder of 23-year-old Fan Man-yee. Upon further investigation, the authorities discovered that Man-yee's body had been dismembered and discarded through the trash— save for her severed head, which had been sewn into a Hello Kitty doll. The podcasts below will give you an inside look into this gruesome Hello Kitty murder, but listener discretion is advised. << Show Less
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Forensic Tales host Courtney Fretwell discusses the powerful influence of Hello Kitty in society and the haunting role that the cartoon icon played in the 1999 murder of Fan Man-yee.
Why did a 14 year old girl tell police she was being terrorised by a ghost?
The reason this ghost was haunting her was because she had helped to torture a young woman named Fan Man-yee to death.
The Victim
The Theft
- After 2 years of plying her trade in this brothel, Fan Man-Yee was by all accounts something of a favourite among the establishment’s unsavoury clientele. One of her regular clients was the 34 year old Chang Man-Lok.10Man-Lok often asked for Man-Yee personally. In his police interrogation he went into rather explicit detail about exactly why he took such a shine to her, bu…
The Kidnapping
- Chang Man-Lok knew that Fan Man-Yee had ample opportunities to escape: within 24 hours she could have fled to the United Kingdom, or disappeared deep into the Chinese mainland, and with her would disappear both his compensation and his pride’s satisfaction. Accordingly he went to pay her a visit the next day, and remind her of the dues she owed him. The gangster was enrage…
The Torture
- At this point Chang Man-Lok, Leung Shing-Cho, and Leung Wai-Lun had a simple enough, albeit already abhorrent plan: establish the decrepit apartment up as a brothel, imprison Fan Man-Yee inside, and force her to have sex with clients of the gangsters choosing to pay off her debt. This plan quickly changed however, and evolved into one of stomach-churning torture and brutality. T…
The Murder
- The inevitable finally happened on the 15th April 1999. The group went out to party and as per their routine, locked Fan Man-Yee in the bathroom so she couldn’t escape. When they returned Chang Man-Lok’s (lest we forget 13 year old) girlfriend went to use the toilet, and found Man-Yee dead in the bath. She could take no more punishment, and finally...
The Arrest
- Fortunately this is the part of the story where Chang Man-Lok’s now fourteen year old ‘girlfriend’ became consumed with guilt, as we discussed at the beginning of the episode. Whether or not she was actually seeing Fan Man-Yee’s ghost I will leave to Simon and you the audience to decide. Too scared to admit her anxiety to her ‘boyfriend’ and too ashamed to admit it to her parents, sh…
Wrap Up
- Let us not just reduce the tragic case of Fan Man-Yee into a gruesome spectacle for us to gawk at. Remember her name, remember her image, and remember her tragic tale. Every city on earth has a plentitude of women just like Fan Man-Yee who were handed a bad hand by fate, who have to scavenge for scraps on the edge of polite society’s splendour, and plenty of animals such as …