hi youtube its joshua miles and welcome back to my channel
today were going to be covering another solved
true crime case
for my curious case series id just like to
point out this video is not being made to cause disrespect or anything like that
it is just being made to spread awareness about this case
by compiling information from various different public sources
on the internet, now with all that being said
lets delve right into this case. its not everyday
that a 14 year old girl shows up
at a police station claiming that shes
being haunted by the ghost of a woman
that she helped to allegedly torture,murder and butcher
the year before, but that's exactly what happened at the
hong kong Tsim Sha Tsui police station
in may of 1999 when the girl
showed up and told her story
the police officers were understandably very
very sceptical and they didn't believe her story
one bit, but because of protocol
the police officers had to follow up the little girl's
claims and when they did, they uncovered
what is considered to be Hong Kong's
most henious and horrendous crime of all
time. This is the curious case of the
'Hello Kitty murder' just
a quick sidenote that some of the names
have been switched out with fake names
for the purposes of identity protection
Melody,which is a fake name, had just finished
celebrating her 13th birthday and had decided
that she was fed up of being a teenager and was fed up
of being a kid and that she wanted to be an adult
now. Melody absolutely hated the slum
estate home that she lived in with her parents and her
older brothers, she was constantly arguing with her parents
and her brothers and as a result
just before the lunar new year
in 1998, melody
ran away from home.Melody somehow found her
way to a cheap restaurant and she
sat in that cheap restaurant
for hours just gazing into the distance
praying and hoping that someone would come along
and change her luck, and
miraculously her prayers were heard.
an 18 year old boy sat down on her table
opposite her, the boy was wearing a fake black
armarni suit, a gold neck chain
and a gold ID bracelet
he introduced himself to Melody as leung Wai-lun
I am just going to point out
that all the name, Chinese names in
the video, i am going to be horrendously butchering so
I apologise if i cause any offence, feel free to correct me in the comments down below
but this boy told Melody that everyone just called
him Gangster, and Melody, just being
just 13 years old, very impressionable
and having grown up in a slum
estate, she was
instantly captivated
by the expensive jewellery
and by this boys personality, that night
Ganster, who i have to remind you is 18
and Melody a 13 year old slept together
and over the course of the next year, Melody
actually visited her parents
but those visits were few and far between. She would only
attend school just a handful of times
The 13 year old plunged herself deep into the world
of love hotels, nightclubs and
karaoke bars. One night
Ganster introduced Melody to his "big brother"
and his name was Chan Man-lok
Chan was 34 years old, he was a
pimp,he was a loan shark and he was also
a drug dealer.As soon as Chan set his eyes
on Melody,he told her that she must come and
stay and visit his plac. Chan lived in a 7
bedroom apartment high above
most famous shopping street
and this street was called Granville Road
Chan's flat had everything needed you to keep you entertained
cable TV , a playstation,
video games, adult
films, Hollywood films,
Hong Kong films and lots and lots of
drugs, and strangely the entire
flat was completely decked out
in Hello Kitty merchandise. were talking
Hello kitty curtains, Hello kitty bed sheets,
Hello Kitty kitchen wear and a bunch of
Hello Kitty dolls just around the flat. Now
Chan used his flat as the head quarters
to run his drug cartel
and Chan's most popular product
was crystal meth, the perfect drug
to keep you distracted and secluded
from the real world, and for 23 year old
Fan Man-yee, the real world was a
place that she also wanted to
avoid. Fan Man-yee was known to have friends and family
as Ah map and she actually had quite
a rough childhood, she was abandoned as a little girl
and was raised in an all girl's orphanage and by
the time she was in her mid teens, she had committed
to a life of petty crime,
prostitution and drug addiction, most,
if not all of her relationships were with
drug dealers or clients, her husband
was a drug addict. Ah map and her husband
met when Ah map was working as a dancer
in the Emperors Karaoke bar in May of 1996
two years later, Ah map
gave birth to a son, according to the neighbours,
however, the neighbours had a lot of trouble
at home. The neighbours would often be kept awake at night
from the sound of domestic violence
now Ah Map met Chan in 1997
when she was working as a prostitute
in a Kowloon brothel. Now Chan was actually a
regular client of Ah Map and they often indulged
in long sexual sessions and drug
binges together and their drug of choice
was crystal meth. however, this quickly came to an end
when Ah Map for some reason or another
stole Chan's wallet, which contained currency to the value
of 4000 US dollars, a
mistake which would ultimately cost her, her life.
when Chan found out
he demanded his money back and Ah Map
was quick to oblige, she payed Chan
back the equivalent of 4000 US
and then an additional
10,000 US dollars. However Chan
was a loan shark and by nature
he was going to add interest and he demanded
a further 16,000 US
dollars from Ah Map as interest and as you can imagine
Ah Map didn't have $16,000
to give to Chan, she had given him all of her savings
and valuables, so
on March 17th 1999
Chan ordered 2 of his henchmen to break into
Ah Map's home and to abduct her, and these 2
henchmen were called Leung Shing-cho
and Gangster, yes the 18 year old boy
nicknamed Gangster from earlier in this case. Chan's plan
was to hold Ah Map in his apartment and work her as
a prostitute, he would then take all of her earnings
until her ever increasing debt was repayed
remember Chan is a loan shark and this
loan, this debt is gradually increasing
due to interest but Chan's
plan was actually flawed, by the time
that Ah Map had been abducted and
transported to Chan's apartment, she was battered and bruised
and battered and bruised
prostitutes don't attract
customers.
Chan, Gangster and his other henchmen,Leung,
all lived in Chans apartment, along with Melody
and together the group would go on massive crystal meth
drug binges, and because Ah Map
was battered and bruised and wasn't attracting
any customers, they decided
to torture her, because to them, it was
just way too much fun. They beat her whenever they
were bored and they beat her just
for laughs, and from time to time
Melody, who at this point was 14 years old
would actually join in, Melody would later tell
the court that she actually Liked Ah Map
and they got along pretty well
However she also told the court how she burnt Ah Map
and hit her along with the others
when she was asked in court why she did it
she simply replied with a straight face
that she did it for fun
just to see what it felt like to hurt someone.
sometimes the group would make Ah Map
laugh out loud and be pretend to be happy while they
tortured her,it was all a game that they played
and if Ah Map didn't pretend to be happy they
would beat her harder, they told her to laugh and smile
while they burnt her, to the group it was
all just fun and games. Now the kitchen in Chan's apartment
became like an arsenal to the group
they found use for almost every kitchen utensil
appliance and condiment in the kitchen.
they would set the plastic straws alight, hold
Ah Map down and then let the plastic burn the
hot plastic drip onto her
feet, onto the soles of her feet, until
they blistered and until they started oozing puss.
However they quickly grew tired of doing
that and decided to just straight up set
set her feet on fire, before
beating them with a stick. Chilli oil
was then poured onto her open wounds
and oyster sauce was sprayed into her face.
Ah Map was also forced to drink all of the
oils that chan had in his kitchen, she was beaten with
water pipes, she was beaten with metal
pipes. often the men would urinate on to her face
and into her mouth and if she couldn't swallow it
fast enough then they would beat her.
One time, just for a laugh
Melody defecated in a shoe box
and the men forced Ah Map to eat it
When there was nothing for the group to watch on TV
and when they were bored, they would use electrical
wire to hang Ah Map
from the ceiling and they would proceed to beat her
with iron bars. However they would
grow quickly bored and would actually leave her there
dangling from the ceiling overnight. As
inevitably, Ah Map started to deteriorate
she would drift in and out of consciousness
and this would either happen on the floor
or she would be tied up
while the men played video games. Ah map
was broken and to the group
she wasn't any fun anymore but the
group kept beating her simply because they didn't have
anything else to do, almost a month after
the group had started torturing Ah Map
Melody woke up and went to check on her
and she had discovered that she had died
Ah Map had spent her final nights lying on the
cold bathroom floor alone
slipping in and out of consciousness, being completely
ignored by the group
until she passed away in the middle of the night
after the discovery the group had discussed what they were going to do with the body
the entire day but they never came to a
conclusion, so Ah Map's lifeless
corpse was just left on the bathroom floor
the group would then continue to go out to the local
arcades where they would play more video games
the next day, on another crystal meth binge
Chan gathered the group together and informed them
that now she must be destroyed.
in the horrifying and gruesome 10 hour
operation that followed
Ah Map's body was lifted into the bathtub
and butchered. Chan
cut off Ah Map's head with a wood saw
while the others got to work on the other parts of
her body, they stripped and bagged her flesh, put them
in plastic bags and stored them in the fridge.
Melody would later tell the court that Gangster woke her
up during this 10 hour operation and
handed her a plastic bag with Ah Map's intestines in it, Gangster told her to go
cover the plastic bag
in hot water to stop it from smelling. Later,
on Leung cooked the head
in a pot of boiling water, while he was
doing this, he actually called Melody over to take a look
Melody told him that he was too afraid to look but Leung replied that saying "it looked like something
out of a movie and pretend
you're watching a movie and so Melody went over
and went and looked and when she looked into the pot
and she saw a skull boiling in the hot
water she thought to herself "hmm
he's right, it does look like something from a movie!"
Now while the head was boiling on this pot, the group
decided they would take a break for lunch
the head was boiling on one hob and
on the one next to it, they decided to cook some noodles
and they used the same spoon to stir
the noodles as they did to stir
Ah Map's head. Once the head
had been completely boiled down to a skull
Chan decided to take the head and decided to
sew it into one of the Hello Kitty dolls in his flat
and this Hello Kitty doll was a giant
Hello Kitty mermaid doll, now in exchange
for her protection, Melody testified
against Chan and the other men in the group in court
and in an attempt to rid herself of
the alleged haunting that was going on
she detailed the entire
incident in court
very graphically, she detailed
all the torture that the men put Ah Map
through, the story was so disturbing that
many people in the courtroom actually thought the story was
fictional, however the evidence found by the police
was not only damning but was so so disturbing
the police found body part trophies
around chan's flat and on these trophies
was DNA evidence of all 3 of the men
proving that at 1 point they has touched the
bone trophies. Unfortunately due to
the state of Ah Map's body
the medical examiners were unable to determine
a course of death. there was no doubt in
anybody's mind that Ah Map hadn't experienced
and gone through horrendous
and horrifically gruesome torture, however
what i'm about to tell you angers me
beyond belief, the medical
examiners were unable to determine whether Ah Map
had actually died of a simple drug
overdose or whether she had
actually been tortured to death and as a
result of that, the 3 men, Chan and his 2 henchmen
were not charged with murder
they were actually just charged with
manslaughter. The jury believing with the evidence
and the medical examiners not being able to determine
a course of death, that the 3 men hadn't
intended to kill Ah Map, they just tortured her,
death was not the intent and as you can imagine
this charge caused massive public
outrage, the trio of men were sentenced to life
in prison with the possibility of parole of 2o years.
that is everything i have in this case.
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