Arrests in Hong Kong murder case
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THE girlfriend of a British lecturer has been arrested along with two men over his murder in southern China, Chinese police said yesterday, with local media reporting he was dismembered after he was killed.
Hilary Bower, 60, who taught at a university in Hong Kong, was murdered over an “emotional dispute,” mainland police said, as media reports painted a complex picture of his love life involving several women.
The English language lecturer had been missing for more than three weeks after he was last seen on March 21 at a border crossing between Hong Kong and the neighboring southern city of Shenzhen, where he is reported to have lived.
Hong Kong police said earlier this week that Bower had been killed on the mainland, “possibly” murdered.
Police in Shenzhen confirmed yesterday that he had been murdered on March 22, a day after he went missing. A 38-year-old woman surnamed Xu and two men “murdered her foreigner boyfriend Hilary Bower over an emotional dispute,” the Shenzhen public security bureau said on its Weibo account.
It said Bower and Xu had lived together for 17 years.
The three were arrested on April 8 and the case was still under investigation, it added.
Hong Kong local media, citing unnamed public security sources, reported Xu had turned herself in to police in the city of Dongguan on April 7, where she had told officers she had murdered and then dismembered Bower with the help of two men.
Hong Kong media said Bower had a number of girlfriends on the mainland.
One girlfriend, named by media as Shi Xiumei, had reported Bower missing at a police station in Hong Kong on March 30, Hong Kong police said earlier this week.
Bower had been reported to be living with Shi and their 6-year-old son.
Fears were previously raised that his death could have been linked to a million-dollar property deal.
A friend of Bower, Richard Charles, told the South China Morning Post he believed it could be related to a recent property sale for which Bower was due to receive HK$9 million (US$1.2 million).
Bower’s brother Robin arrived in Shenzhen on Wednesday where he hoped to meet with Chinese authorities to get some answers, the Post said.
Bower had also taught in China’s mainland, South Korea, Thailand, Spain and Kuwait.
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