High on ICE, the gang threw oyster sauce in her face and eyes, made her drink motor oil. Thirteen-year-old Ah Fong told the court: "They beat her all the time." When Fan would drift out of consciousness, they would stop torturing her and play video games. They would again use the chili oil to maximize her pain. The Hong Kong apartment where Fan was beaten, tortured, and eventually cooked. When the morning came, the men beat Fan with iron bars and a detached water pipe. Chili oil, vegetable oil infused with different chili peppers poured into her blisters, her wounds, and her eyes.Įach night when the gang slept, they would hang up their victim by her feet from a hook attached to the apartment ceiling. They instead began holding the flame to her already blistered feet. The men did this for several hours before getting bored with the straws. The 13-year-old Ah Fong, who was there for most of the crime, detailed for the courts what happened during an entire month the men kept Fan Man-yee alive and in and out of consciousness.įirst Fong recalls, the group tied her up, took off her shoes and using plastic straws began melting, the plastic on Fan’s feet causing blistering. It was then when they realized that Fan could not make any money on the street as she the three men bruised and beaten her. The 3 men continued to get high on ice before they resumed beating her. The men high on ICE and crystal meth began mercilessly beating Fan until she lost consciousness. Chan’s mainly used this five-bedroom apartment for gang-related activities and for reasons unknown, the Hello Kitty products made up the entire apartment’s decor. The group’s plan was to abduct Fan and make her prostitute until she repaid her debt. The kidnapping of Fan Man-yee happened during the evening of Maby two triad members, Leung Shing-Cho and Leung Wai-lun whom Chan had ordered for her abduction. Not only did they torture her, but the gang demanded that she pay a large sum in extorsion money. The relationship was rocky, with both Fan and her husband being addicted to drugs, and neighbors complained constantly of hearing domestic abuse in the apartment. She nearly found happiness when she married in 1996 and gave birth to a son. Her family abandoned her while she was only a child and she ended up at the Ma Tau Wai girls at home.įan became addicted to drugs at an early age and to pay for her addiction she started selling her body for sex at various brothels and night clubs. It was at one of these brothels in 1997, the Romance Villa in Kowloon, that Chan met 23-year-old Fan Man-yee: a known prostitute and ICE addict.įan had a troubled life growing up. Members of the triads would often hang out at local brothels. Hong Kong in the 1990s was rampant with gang violence. The apartment owner was a 34-year-old named Chan Man-lok, a known drug lord and gang affiliate and triad leader. Police noticed the putrid smell of rotting flesh hit the officers before they stepped through the doorway. Police believed Fong’s story as they opened apartment #31 on Granville Road in Kowloon.
She was constrained in this area of the aparment. By 2008, Hello Kitty was responsible for 50% of the company Sanrio’s $1 billion revenue and there were over 50,000+ different Hello Kitty branded products across the world.The captives forced their victim to consume human waste. In 1999 it was estimated that Hello Kitty appeared on 12,000+ different products yearly.
#HELLO KITTY SERIES#
The 1994–1996 Face series was the first to be designed for a more mature & adult marketplace. In the 1990s, the target market reach for Hello Kitty was widened to include teens and adults as a retro brand.Ĭrafted to those who could not get Hello Kitty products as children, or who lovingly remembered items they had as children, Sanrio began selling Hello Kitty branded merchandise such as bags, purses and even laptops. Hello Kitty was originally designed for a preteen and children audiences.
#HELLO KITTY TV#
Yuko Yamaguchi, the head designer for most of Hello Kitty’s designs and themes, has stated that she is inspired by movies, TV and fashion when creating new Hello Kitty designs. The founding company Sanrio’s sales increased x7 times up until they slumped in 1978.Īfter 1978 a new series of different themed designs of Hello Kitty in different themed designs were released regularly, following current society trends. Hello Kitty merchandise and products was launched in 1974 and sold very well from the outset.
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