Police detained three Hong Kong residents who fled to Taiwan after being connected to a grisly body-in-cement murder in the territory last month, after they were tipped off by a woman who was with them, the Criminal Investigation Bureau said yesterday.
Criminal Investigation Bureau deputy head Huang Chia-lu (黃嘉祿) said the three men, including the main suspect, a 26-year-old surnamed Tsang (曾), are scheduled to be deported today.
The three men and an 18-year-old woman, surnamed Ho (何), allegedly fled to Taiwan early last month.
During their stay, they hid in Taipei’s Songshan (松山) and Wanhua (萬華) districts, before moving to New Taipei City’s Banciao District (板橋), where they were eventually tracked down.
Ho (何), who police said is suspected of being involved in the murder to a lesser degree than the men, was the key to locating the three male suspects, Huang said.
She went to the Taipei Police Department’s Wenshan Second Precinct on Sunday night and told police the whereabouts of the three men, Huang said.
“She asked for police protection so that she could return to Hong Kong and escape being killed by her associates,” Huang said.
Ho flew to Hong Kong yesterday afternoon.
Huang said police picked up the three suspects in Banqiao on Monday and detained them after revoking their entry permits.
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The discovery of the murder they are alleged to have been involved with shocked Hong Kong. While investigating a missing-persons case on March 29, police found a badly decomposed body inside a cement-filled box in an apartment in the territory’s Tsuen Wan District.
The victim was a 28-year-old man who was last seen entering the building on March 4. His girlfriend reported him missing two days later.
Hong Kong media outlets had reported that Tsang and the others had fled to Taiwan.
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