Police in Hong Kong on Monday arrested a woman who confessed to killing her three daughters – aged two, four and about six – inside their flat in Kowloon. Initial investigations showed that the woman called the police at around 11am claiming that her husband had stabbed...
The woman reportedly told her mother over the phone earlier that day that she killed her daughters. Moments later, she called the police to pin the blame on her husband.His sister told reporters that he and his wife separated about a year ago and were awaiting a court’s ruling on who would get custody of their daughters.
Superintendent Alan Chung Nga Lun of the Kowloon West regional crime unit said in a news briefing that the woman and her daughters had been at the Sham Shui Po flat for about 11 months. He said the woman had no record of a mental illness, and that there had been no reports of domestic violence involving the family.
Supt Chung said investigators found blood on a pillow that might have been used to suffocate the three girls.Hong Kong’s Social Welfare Department said on Twitter that the woman and her daughters were being helped by a non-government organisation. Ms Susan Chi, a volunteer working at the office of Society for Community Organisation, an NGO located on the second floor of the building, told the Post that she saw police holding one girl and another child was on a stretcher.Get The New Paper on your phone with the free TNP app. Download from the
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