HONG KONG: A British businessman was ordered on Friday (Nov 1) to stay in custody after being charged with homicide in Hong Kong over the dying of an Indonesian lady at a park waterfall.
Jamie Tzewee Chapman, 34, didn’t enter a plea within the court docket look and his lawyer didn’t request bail. The choose adjourned the case to January to permit time for additional investigation.
Chapman and his spouse, a Hong Konger, have been arrested on Tuesday after they returned to town from mainland China. His spouse had been held on suspicion of helping an offender earlier than being launched on bail pending additional investigation, police mentioned on Thursday.
Police mentioned Chapman and the Indonesian lady went collectively to a waterfall in a park in Pok Fu Lam on Hong Kong Island on Sunday evening. He left alone in a taxi half about an hour later, and residents noticed the lady’s physique within the pond beneath the waterfall on Monday morning, police mentioned. She had been struck within the head and drowned.
“We discovered so many unreasonable issues associated to the arrested man. He did not report back to the police and instantly left Hong Kong after the incident. Some proof associated to him had disappeared too,” police superintendent Sin Kwok-ming mentioned on Tuesday.
“This case includes an individual’s life, and we take that very severely. We are going to fastidiously unravel each element to uncover the reality and to deliver justice to the deceased,” Sin mentioned.
Mevi Novitasari, who was about 25, was a home employee in Hong Kong however didn’t work for the suspect, police have mentioned.
She was from Cilacap in Central Java province, Judha Nugraha, director of safety of Indonesian residents and authorized entities, mentioned from Indonesia.
Her employment company and the Indonesian consulate will facilitate the repatriation of the stays and the consulate basic will proceed to observe the investigation, he mentioned.
