Ex-convict of Hello Kitty murder case jailed a year for indecent assault on girl

One defendant who was convicted in the Hello Kitty murder case in 1999 was sentenced to 12 months in jail for indecently assaulting a 10-year-old girl.

The 48-year-old defendant Leung Shing-cho was charged in the West Kowloon Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

According to the court, Leung was accused of touching the body parts of the girl - his friend’s daughter - claiming to provide her a “massage” in a flat in Tin Shui Wai last December.

Magistrate Jeffrey Sze Cho-yiu judged the behavior of Leung was beyond “massage” and taking advantage of the trust of the victim. 

“The level of the sentence should consider the extent of the case arousing public resentment, together with the concern of protecting children’s rights under the law from being assaulted,” said the Magistrate.

Leung was one of the defendants in a murder case that happened in the spring of 1999. He and the other two defendants were charged to kidnap and torture a woman which lead to her death. 

The body of the woman victim was dismembered and her skull was put in a Hello Kitty doll, which made the name of the murder case.

Leung was convicted of the crime of manslaughter, false imprisonment, and preventing the lawful burial of a body in 2000; and was originally sentenced to life imprisonment. Then he was sentenced to 18 years in prison after appealing and completed his sentence in 2011.