30 stab and cut wounds: Yoga instructor, 23, found murdered in bathtub at 5-star hotel in Hong Kong

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Hong Kong police have arrested a jobless man on suspicion of killing his former girlfriend after she was found dead, with multiple stab and cut wounds, in a bathtub at a five-star hotel. The body of Chow Wai-yin, a 23-year-old yoga instructor also known as Aqua Chow, was discovered in one of the rooms in The Ritz Carlton hotel in...

CCTV footage of Chow Wai-yin, also known as Aqua Chow, entering the Ritz Carlton hotel where she was later found dead.Hong Kong police have arrested a jobless man on suspicion of killing his former girlfriend after she was found dead, with multiple stab and cut wounds, in a bathtub at a five-star hotel.

“The deceased was found in a bathtub that was filled with [bloody water] and her head was also submerged in water,” he said.“An initial examination by a forensic pathologist shows that the victim suffered more than 30 knife wounds to the limbs and her body in the front and back,” the superintendent said.

He said it was possible Chow was killed before being left in the bathtub. Chow was wearing clothes and shoes when the body was found.Officers found her belongings such as her wallet at the scene, but her mobile phone had not been located. At around 4am on Friday, the hooded and handcuffed suspect was taken to the car park of a public housing estate in Lam Tin, where officers searched a Mercedes-Benz in front of him. The pair arrived at the hotel in the Mercedes-Benz.Chow, who lived alone in Sham Shui Po, was scheduled to take a flight to the United States in the early hours of Thursday. She took a yoga course there.

Later officers checked security camera footage that showed Chow left her flat with her ex-boyfriend at about 4pm on Wednesday. It is the second gruesome killing at the hotel in four years. In January 2018, a South Korean merchant was accused of killing his wife and six-year-old son in a luxury suite at the hotel.

 

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