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Hong Kong man, 19, arrested after being suspected of killing his girlfriend while in Taiwan

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He had returned home alone, where Hong Kong police detained him and informed Taiwan authorities who later discovered the body
A 19-year-old man was on Tuesday arrested by Hong Kong police after he was suspected of murdering his girlfriend, 20, on a Taiwan trip and dumping her body near a Taipei subway station.
The badly decomposed body of Poon Hiu-wing, a student from the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, was discovered in a bushy area near a metro station by Taipei police.
Authorities on the self-ruled island had received details from Hong Kong police before the find, Taiwanese media reported.
The couple arrived in Taipei on February 8 and checked in five days later at Purple Garden Hotel near Zhongshan MRT station, a Hong Kong police source said.
The man, surnamed Chan, an associate degree student, returned to Hong Kong alone on February 17.
The woman’s father approached police for help on March 5 after losing contact with his daughter, the source said.
On Tuesday, officers from the missing persons unit in the East Kowloon region approached the suspect in Tseung Kwan O.

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