Maid due to jet home just hours after she was 'murdered by British lover' in Hong Kong

Mevi Novitasari's household volition laic her assemblage to remainder this week successful a distant Indonesian colony aft cops arrested British businessman Jamie Chapman, 34, and charged him with murder

The household of a maid contiguous told however she was owed to pitchy location conscionable hours aft she was allegedly killed by her British "lover" astatine a waterfall successful Hong Kong.

Mevi Novitasari's household volition laic her assemblage to remainder this week arsenic cops proceed to probe businessman Jamie Chapman, 34, from Surrey, who has been held implicit her murder. The 25-year-old's assemblage was repatriated to her location successful Indonesia this play aft she was recovered astatine the bottommost of the Waterfall Bay Park successful Pok Fu Lam. Police are probing whether she was killed aft joined Chapman ended their romance.

Speaking to the Mirror from the distant Indonesian colony of Bulaksari, parent Manisem, 60, blasted claims she leapt to her death. She said: "I americium aggravated due to the fact that my girl is simply a victim, there's nary mode she would person killed herself. There's nary mode it was suicide. She was a bully miss who had excessively overmuch to unrecorded for." Manisem besides revealed Mevi was owed backmost to alert backmost to her location successful Central Java conscionable 24 hours aft her death. And they told however they had been incapable to interruption the devastating quality to Mevi's five-year-old daughter, Kyra.

The household said Mevi archetypal travelled to Hong Kong for enactment 17 months ago, sending 3 cardinal rupiah (£150) location each period to enactment her poverty-stricken family. She was owed to instrumentality location to renew her visa truthful that she could proceed moving successful Hong Kong. But alternatively her household were told she had died earlier ever making the flight.

Her younger brother, Budi, 23, said: "The time she was killed we had a txt from the employment bureau asking if she had travel location early. But past we were told she had been killed. We were devastated, successful implicit shock." Mevi's father, Saring Ahmad, 55, said: "We privation to travel the regularisation of instrumentality successful Hong Kong. But if Jamie is blameworthy past I privation him to spell to prison."

Chapman was raised by his parents Kevin and Lee successful a £1m detached location successful Surrey. He sought to marque his luck successful Hong Kong, launching upmarket crystal pick and java shops. He was remanded successful situation connected suspicion of murdering Mevi earlier this month.

Police were called aft she was recovered dormant astatine picturesque Waterfall Bay Park successful Pok Fu Lam connected the southbound seashore of Hong Kong island. According to section reports she had suffered terrible caput injuries. It is claimed successful section media that she had been embroiled successful a clandestine matter with Chapman - who is joined to a pistillate said to a Hong Kong local, aged 36.

It is alleged that the expected lovers met astatine the park, with witnesses claiming to person seen them unneurotic earlier Mevi was recovered dead. The Briton was arrested on with his wife. The mates unrecorded successful a high-rise level not acold from the country of the maid’s death. Chapman volition look successful tribunal again successful January.