Briton arrested in HK after prostitutes found dead
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A BRITISH banker has been arrested in Hong Kong in connection with the grisly murder of two women, a rare occurrence in a city known for its low homicide rate.
Hong Kong police said in a statement on Saturday that a 29-year-old foreign man had been detained earlier that day after two women were found dead in an expensive apartment in Wan Chai, a central city district known for its night life.
Police declined to give the name or the nationality of the man, whom local media and a source with knowledge of the situation have identified as being a Bank of America Merrill Lynch banker.
A spokesman for Bank of America Merrill Lynch told Reuters yesterday that the US bank had, until recently, an employee bearing the same name as a man Hong Kong media have described as chief suspect in the double murder case.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch would not give any more details nor clarify when the person had left the bank.
Britain’s Foreign Office in London said on Saturday that a British national had been arrested in Hong Kong, without specifying the nature of any suspected crime.
The body of one of the two victims had been hidden in a suitcase on a balcony, while the other, a foreign woman between 25 and 30, was found lying inside the apartment with wounds to her neck and buttocks, according to a police statement.
The man had called police in the early hours of Saturday and asked them to investigate the case, police said.
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper said the suspect had taken about 2,000 photographs and some video footage of the victims after the killings, including close-ups of their wounds. Local media said the two women were prostitutes.
The apartment where the bodies were found is on the 31st floor in a building popular with finance professionals, where average rents are about HK$30,000 (US$4,000) a month.
“It’s very shocking because we never expected something like this to happen in Hong Kong, especially in the same building that I’m living in,” said banker Mina Liu.
Another woman who lives down the corridor from where the bodies were found said she had seldom seen anyone come and go from the apartment.
There were 14 homicides in Hong Kong, a city of seven million, between January and June, down from 56 in the same period last year, according to government crime statistics.
In one of Hong Kong’s most talked-about killings, the “milkshake murder,” a Merrill Lynch banker was clubbed to death in 2003 by his wife after she had given him a milkshake full of sleeping pills.
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