Son kills, salts and cooks his parents

A self-confessed ‘psychopath’ in Hong Kong who dismembered, salted and cooked his own parents, was convicted by a court on Friday, according to the news website asiaone, quoting the South China Morning Post.

Henry Chau, 31, packed his parents’ body parts into lunchboxes ‘like barbecued meat,’ the court heard.

(https://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/hong-kong-man-who-salted-and-cooked-parents-guilty-murder)

The severed heads of 65-year-old Chau Wing-ki and his wife Siu Yuet-yee, 62, were found in March 2013, stuffed into two refrigerators in a bloodstained apartment, days after they were reported missing.

Other remains were found in a rubbish bin and packed into lunchboxes with rice.

Chau’s friend Tse Chun-kei was found not guilty on two counts of murder.

Chau will be sentenced on Monday, the Post reported.

Chau initially told police that his parents had gone to mainland China, but later admitted to the murder on an Internet messaging group.

In evidence read to the Hong Kong's High Court last year, Chau claimed that he planned to mislead the police in order to buy himself some time to say goodbye to friends.

"My murdering partner and I were planning to make it a missing person case and dump the body piece by piece," he said in a group message.

Chau also called himself a ‘psychopath’ in the messages and said: "I cannot empathise with people's pain because of my experience from childhood and adolescence."

 

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