Police officers cordon off an area where a Southeast Asian woman’s body was found Monday at a waterfall inside a park in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. Police officers cordon off an area where a Southeast Asian woman’s body was found Monday at a waterfall inside a park in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. Police officers cordon off an area where a Southeast Asian woman’s body was found Monday at a waterfall inside a park in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. An unidentified person wearing a hood is escorted by police officers to a park for video reconstruction of a crime scene where a Southeast Asian woman’s body was found Monday at a waterfall inside the park in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. An unidentified person wearing a hood is escorted by police officers to a park for video reconstruction of a crime scene where a Southeast Asian woman’s body was found Monday at a waterfall inside the park in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. An unidentified person wearing a hood is escorted by police officers to a park for video reconstruction of a crime scene where a Southeast Asian woman’s body was found Monday at a waterfall inside the park in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.
HONG KONG (AP) — A British businessman was ordered Friday to remain in custody after being charged with murder in Hong Kong over the death of an Indonesian woman at a park waterfall.
Jamie Tzewee Chapman, 34, did not enter a plea in the court appearance and his lawyer did not request bail. The judge adjourned the case to January to allow time for further investigation.
Chapman and his wife, a Hong Konger, were arrested Tuesday when they returned to the city from mainland China. His wife had been held on suspicion of assisting an offender before being released on bail pending further investigation, police said Thursday.
Police said Chapman and the Indonesian woman went together to a waterfall in a park on Hong Kong Island on Sunday night. He left about half an hour later, and residents spotted the woman’s body in the pond below the waterfall Monday morning, police said. She had been struck in the head and drowned.
Mevi Novitasari, who was about 25, was a domestic worker in Hong Kong but did not work for the suspect, police have said.…Read more by Associated Press, By KANIS LEUNG
