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 demise of an Indonesian girl 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 decide adjourned the case to January to permit time for additional investigation.
Chapman and his spouse, a Hong Konger, had been arrested on Tuesday once they returned to the town from mainland China. His spouse had been held on suspicion of aiding an offender earlier than being launched on bail pending additional investigation, police stated on Thursday.
Police stated Chapman and the Indonesian girl went collectively to a waterfall in a park in Pok Fu Lam on Hong Kong Island on Sunday night time. He left alone in a taxi half about an hour later, and residents noticed the girl’s physique within the pond beneath the waterfall on Monday morning, police stated. 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 stated on Tuesday.
“This case entails an individual’s life, and we take that very critically. We are going to fastidiously unravel each element to uncover the reality and to carry justice to the deceased,” Sin stated.
Mevi Novitasari, who was about 25, was a home employee in Hong Kong however didn’t work for the suspect, police have stated.
She was from Cilacap in Central Java province, Judha Nugraha, director of safety of Indonesian residents and authorized entities, stated from Indonesia.
Her employment company and the Indonesian consulate will facilitate the repatriation of the stays and the consulate basic will proceed to watch the investigation, he stated.
