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A 23-year-old night club hostess by the name of Fan Man-yea (樊敏儀) was kidnapped by three men: 34-year-old Chan Man-lok (陳文樂), 27-year-old Leung Shing-cho (梁勝祖), 21-year-old Leung Wai-lun (梁偉倫), and Chan Man-lok's 13-year-old "girlfriend" after allegedly stealing a wallet from one of them. They took her to an apartment at No. 31 , Tsim Sha Tsui, where they imprisoned her. They beat and tortured her daily over a debt dispute of HK$20,000 (US$2,560).

After a month of imprisonment and torture, Fan was killed (or died as a result of injuries) and dismembered. Her captors placed her skull inside of a mermaid doll and discarded the rest of her remains. Only her skull, one tooth, and some internal organs were recovered.

Fan's remains were found only after Chan's girlfriend led police to the scene. After a six-week trial, the three men were convicted of , as the jury ruled the remains were not sufficient to show whether Fan was murdered or died in another way, such as a drug overdose. The jury could not rule that the men intended to kill 23-year-old Fan Man-yee, which would have meant a mandatory life sentence, but it was determined she died as a result of their abuse. The underage girlfriend of one of the men testified at the trial in exchange for immunity.

Justice , who sentenced the trio to life in prison, stated, "Never in Hong Kong in recent years has a court heard of such cruelty, depravity, callousness, brutality, violence and viciousness." Psychiatric reports described the three, members of a secret society, as "remorseless". There would be no review for parole for 20 years, i.e. until 2020.

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