Sau Mau Ping Gangs Corpse Burning Case in Hong Kong

Do you know there was a murder case in Hong Kong that involved 14 teenagers?

No, the teenagers are not the victims. They are the murderers. And they were not even legal by that time.

It all happened back in 1997. The victim, Luk Chi Wai, was a 16 year old boy who lived in Sau Mau Ping Estate (Kung Tong District, Kowloon). Luk were friends with a group of teenage gang members and usually hung around with them. This just sounds like a bunch of juvenile delinquents messing around, right?

Until they kept on bullying a 37 year old mentally ill cleaner, Chan, who worked in that residential estate.

Maybe deep down, Luk was a good kid, or maybe the gang really was going too far…whatever the reason was, Luk could not stand that bullying. He told Chan to report the case to the police.

The teenage gang felt betrayed and decided to “punish” Luk for this.

The gang lured Luk to where Chan lived, locked him up and abused him.

They stomped on Luk’s arms, clamped his head with folding chair, whipped him with belt, bet him with iron pipe and even slammed his head against the floor…Poor Luk didn’t last long under the torture. After they found out Luk was dead, they dragged him to the garbage room nearby and burnt his corpse, attempting to cover for their bad deeds.

The case was not revealed until Chan went to see the doctor. The doctor thought Chan’s injury was too suspicious and had the police investigate, finally exposing the shocking murder.

The judge Wong Kin Chow was very furious about their doing. He criticized them for showing no remorse and said the victim might have survived if they were willing to look for help. While on the other hand, Wong felt sad for what has happened and urged the society not to ignore teenage problems.

Four of the gang members were first sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, while others were either charged with manslaughter, assault or unlawful disposal of body. After appealing in 2001, the four convicts’ punishment got changed to 20-something years in jail instead of life imprisonment.

Most of them are going to be released in these few years.

I wonder how many of them could turn over a new leaf and atone for what they have done?

And more importantly, will the society give them one more chance?

The Jars Murderer in Hong Kong

Do you know that Lam Kor Wan is one of the two known serial killers in Hong Kong?

Lam is an infamous serial murderer from 1980s, nicknamed “Jars Killer”, or more commonly known as “Rainy Night Butcher” to Hongkongers. He was a nightshift taxi driver. Lam took advantage of his occupation by picking up female passengers and strangulated them with electrical wires. Many of his killings took place during rainy nights, thus earning him the alias mentioned above.

That’s nothing special? You have seen something crazier?

I am not finished yet.

After he killed the victims, he took their bodies home, took off all their clothes, took pictures of their nude bodies and dismembered them. What’s daring about that is he lived with his family members, and his family had no idea that the victims’ bodies were stored under their sofa overnight until they were chopped into pieces the next day.

Then he would cut off the victims’ sexual organs and store them in jars (remember his nickname?) for his…um, personal collection. He even videotaped the whole process of dismemberment and gave the video tapes names like “A Serious Secret” or “Rainy Night Action”…That’s sick? But I still haven’t tell you that he tried eating the third victim’s intestine (“tried”, he failed to do so at last because even he thought that was too disgusting) and had sex with the fourth victim’s body…Opps, I should have warned you first, shouldn’t I?

When he tried to develop the photographs of him dismembering the victims in a film shop, the shop manager found the content too suspicious (even though Lam claimed that he worked at mortuary) and informed the police. The police found out his “collection” at his home and eventually arrested Lam. He was first sentenced to death, but was later changed to life imprisonment since death penalty in Hong Kong was abolished.

Lam is very calm and seldom talks while in jail. This creepy personality, together with his crimes, scared even the prison officers. Lots of people are afraid of him not only for what he has done, but also because of “the aura” surrounding him. One of the officers even said that he once saw four semi-transparent figures circling Lam…

Whether it is real or not though, I will let you decide…