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Foreign national arrested as police investigate Wan Chai ‘love triangle’ murders
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 01 November, 2014, 2:09pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 01 November, 2014, 4:49pm
Alice Woodhouse and Lana Lam
Reports claimed one victim was found inside a suitcase on a balcony. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Police are investigating a murder case in Wan Chai in the small hours of Saturday in which a foreign woman aged between 25 and 30, and another woman were killed.
At about 3.42am, a 29-year-old foreign man made a report and requested police to investigate a case in a unit at 60 Johnston Road, Wan Chai.
Police sped to the scene and an unconscious woman aged 25 to 30 was found lying inside the unit. Sustaining cut wounds to her neck and buttock, the woman was certified dead at scene.
Exterior view of the J Residence Building in Wan Chai (file photo). Photo: Jonathan Wong
In the course of the investigation, police found a suitcase at the balcony of the unit, and a female dead body with neck injuries was found inside the suitcase.
Police arrested the 29-year-old man at scene for murder. He is being detained for enquiries. A knife was seized at scene.
Post-mortem examinations will be conducted later to ascertain the causes of death of the deceased.
Active investigations by the District Crime Squad of Wan Chai District were under way.
Police investigate the murder scene. Photo: Jonathan Wong
A police spokeswoman said she was unable to confirm the man’s nationality or race nor that of his victims.
A police source told the South China Morning Post earlier that the case was the result of a love triangle gone wrong.
The source said that the murders were the grisliest the city had seen since the so-called "milkshake murder" in 2003, when a high-flying American banker’s wife served him a strawberry milkshake full of sedatives before bludgeoning him to death.
Nancy Kissel was convicted of the murder in 2005 and lost a final appeal to overturn the verdict in April.
