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A tribunal successful Hong Kong remanded a British antheral successful custody after charging him with the murder of an Indonesian pistillate astatine a waterfall successful a parkland successful the fiscal hub.
Jamie Tzewee Chapman, 34, appeared astatine the Eastern Court connected Friday but did not participate a plea. His lawyer did not petition bail either.
Mr Chapman and his wife, a Hongkonger, were arrested upon their instrumentality to the metropolis from mainland China.
His woman had been held connected suspicion of assisting an offender earlier being released connected bail pending further investigation, the section constabulary said connected Thursday.
Police said Mr Chapman and the Indonesian woman, Novitasari Mevi, went to the Waterfall Bay Park successful Pok Fu Lam connected Sunday evening. He was seen getting into a taxi unsocial aft 40 minutes and instantly near Hong Kong, according to police.
Residents spotted the woman's assemblage floating successful the pond beneath the waterfall connected Monday morning, constabulary said. She had been struck successful the caput and drowned.
An archetypal autopsy study revealed the origin of the decease to beryllium “asphyxiation by drowning” but she besides sustained caput injuries.
“We recovered truthful galore unreasonable things related to the arrested man,” constabulary superintendent Sin Kwok-ming was quoted by The Telegraph arsenic saying.
“He didn’t study to the constabulary and instantly near Hong Kong aft the incident. Some grounds related to him had disappeared too,” helium said.
Principal Magistrate Don So Man-lung adjourned the lawsuit till 24 January to let clip for further investigation. “In the meantime, you volition enactment successful jail,” helium told Mr Chapman.
Ms Novitasari was a 25-year-old home idiosyncratic successful Hong Kong but did not enactment for the suspect, constabulary said.
She was from Cilacap successful Central Java province, Judha Nugraha, the manager of extortion of Indonesian citizens and ineligible entities, said from Indonesia.
Her employment bureau and the Indonesian consulate volition organise the repatriation of her assemblage and the consulate wide volition proceed to show the investigation, helium said.