HONG KONG: A British businessman was ordered to stay in custody on Friday (Nov 1) after being charged with homicide in Hong Kong over the demise of an Indonesian girl in a park waterfall.
Jamie Tzewee Chapman, 34, made no plea to seem in court docket and his lawyer didn’t apply for bail. The decide adjourned the case to January to permit time for additional investigations.
Chapman and his spouse, initially from Hong Kong, have been arrested on Tuesday as they returned to the town from mainland China. His spouse was held on suspicion of helping an offender earlier than being launched on bail pending additional investigations, police stated on Thursday.
Police stated Chapman and the Indonesian girl went collectively to a waterfall in a park in Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island, on Sunday night. He left alone in a taxi about half an hour later, and on Monday morning residents noticed the girl’s physique within the pond beneath the waterfall, police stated. She had been hit within the head and drowned.
“We discovered so many unreasonable issues associated to the arrested man. He didn’t report back to the police and instantly left Hong Kong after the incident. Some proof associated to him was additionally lacking,” Police Superintendent Sin Kwok-said on Tuesday. ming.
“This case entails an individual’s life and we take it very severely. We will rigorously unravel each element to search out out the reality and convey justice to the deceased,” Sin stated.
Mevi Novitasari, who was in her mid-20s, was a home employee in Hong Kong however didn’t work for the suspect, police stated.
He was from Cilacap in Central Java province, Judha Nugraha, director of Indonesian citizen and authorized entity safety, stated from Indonesia.
Its employment company and the Indonesian consulate will facilitate the repatriation of the stays and the consulate normal will proceed to observe the investigation, it stated.
