
On one occasion, Fan was kicked in the head around fifty times. According to one source, she was beaten with metal bars, sometimes while being strung up and used as a punching bag. Ordeal ĭuring her imprisonment, she was tortured and raped. Initially, Chan had intended to make money off of Fan by pimping her out to other men. 31 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, where they imprisoned her for a month. The group took Fan to an apartment at No. On March 17, 1999, Fan was abducted by three men and one girl at her flat in the Fu Yiu section of Lai Yiu Estate: Chan his grooming victim Lau Ming-fong ( 劉明芳 Liú Míngfāng lau4 ming4 fong1, pseudonym Ah Fong, 14), Leung Wai-lun ( 梁偉倫 Liáng Wěilún loeng4 wai5 leon4, 21), and Leung Shing-cho ( 梁勝祖 Liáng Shèngzǔ loeng4 sing3 zou2, boyfriend of Lau). Although Fan immediately returned the stolen money, she needed more time to secure the additional fee. When Chan realized what had happened, he demanded Fan return the money in addition to a fee of $HK10,000.

In early 1999, Fan stole Chan's wallet, which contained about $HK4,000 (roughly US$500). Kidnapping Ĭhan Man-lok ( 陳文樂 Chén Wénlè can4 man4 lok6, alias Ah Lok, born on May 17, 1965), a 33-year-old Wo Shing Wo triad member who had problematic behavior since middle school and previous charges for drug trafficking, was one of Fan's regular clients at the brothel. Due to these sacrifices, she had a much lower income and struggled to support herself and her family. She quit drugs and prostitution, got a job as a hostess at a nightclub named Empress Karaoke Club, and eventually left her violent husband shortly before her murder. Upon the pregnancy and then birth of her son, Fan decided to turn her life around in order to protect her son and provide him a safer life. Fan's husband was described as abusive and neighbors would report being woken-up by sounds of the couple's fights and the child's screaming and crying from their apartment. She gave birth to their son two years later in approximately November 1998, not long before her murder. Fan eventually married one of her clients, a fellow drug addict named Ng Chi-yuen ( 吳志遠 Wú Zhìyuǎn), in 1996.


Becoming homeless and addicted to drugs, Fan was forced into street prostitution until the age of 21, when she began working at a brothel named Romance Villa, located in Sham Shui Po. When she turned 15, she was told to leave the orphanage because they had an age restriction. Fan Man-yee, the Hello Kitty murder victimīorn in 1976, Fan Man-yee was abandoned by her family as a child, resulting in her being raised in an all girls' orphanage in Ma Tau Wai.
