In the inaccessible woods of Devon, England, a family was walking and walking their dogs, when suddenly, they noticed that something was wrong on the road ahead.
A corpse that had been badly decomposed lay there, and this corpse, without a head!
A few days later, someone found the severed head in the nearby bushes.
The deceased was a 67-year-old Malaysian Chinese woman who died in a tragic state.
After the body was brutally cut, the murderer dragged her body through the street for two hours in broad daylight with a suitcase, and finally threw her into the wilderness.
The identity of the murderer is even more shocking, a highly educated and intelligent white British woman who committed the cruel act of beheading and throwing the body.
BBC report: "The killer dragged his suitcase down the street for hours"
The reaction of the British police and media to the bloody case was even more unacceptable, and at first the police regarded the case as "unexplained", and such a vague handling caused strong dissatisfaction among the Asian community.
Recently, this "headless corpse" case entered the trial stage, and with more details and evidence, the truth of the matter was finally revealed to the world.
The victim, Mee Keun Chong, a Malaysian Chinese who immigrated to the UK at an early age, has lived in London for over 30 years and has her own property and savings.
In the eyes of those around her, she is a very warm-hearted and kind person, "she will not charge rent, let people live in her house for free, and support others emotionally and financially".
At the same time, she is also somewhat fragile, and her psychological problems are more serious.
The prosecutor said,
"She suffers from mental health problems and has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia."
In 2017, she was hospitalized for about half a year.
Ms. Chong's mental condition seems to have been deteriorating in the years that followed. She was introduced to the local community's mental health group as she kept sending letters to Prince Charles (now King) and former Prime Minister Boris.
"There was nothing shocking in the letter, but it was still strange that her mental illness might be recurring."
Such a kind and fragile but rich old lady has become a piece of fat in the eyes of some people who urgently need money and have ulterior motives.
Just in August 2020, the old lady met a 36-year-old woman named Michelle Jemma Mitchell, both devout Christians, who met in the church and quickly became acquainted.
The old lady is unguarded against people, and soon reveals her financial situation to Michelle, not knowing that Michelle is in the arms, she needs a rich and bad brain to fill her own big hole.
Michelle appears to be a highly educated and decent elite, but she was on the verge of desperation at the time.
Born in Australia in 1984, she moved back to the UK with her mother and sister after her parents' marriage broke down.
She did start high by studying the humanities at King's College London and graduating with a first class honours degree.
During her degree, she also completed a course called "Fundamentals of the Functional Structure of the Human Body," in which she learned how to dissect the entire human body except for the head and neck.
In addition to this, she has completed additional study courses in experimental anatomy.
Her talent in this area is clearly very high, and her outstanding achievements in anatomy have also won prestigious awards in the industry.
After graduating, she completed a degree in osteopathy at the British College of Osteopathy, including human anatomy, biomechanics and pathophysiology.
After completing her studies, she returned to Australia to become an osteopathic doctor, which she did for 7 years.
She returned to the UK in 2015 and hasn't worked a day since.
How do you live without work? Fortunately, her family has a house that has been passed down from generation to generation in the UK, but the house is in a state of disrepair.
A year after she returned to England, in 2016, Michelle's mother was preparing to renovate the house, build a third floor, and launch a "real estate development plan".
This mother and daughter should think that when the time comes to repair the house, whether it is renting out or doing some other business, it is a way to get money.
But I didn't want to, and the whole construction process developed into a disaster later.
Michelle managed the property project on behalf of her mother, who first paid £130,000 to a builder, but the other party went bankrupt and the building was not completed.
After the second builder offered 500,000, she paid 100,000 first, the rest never paid, obviously unable to come up with the money, in 2019, the builder stopped working.
Michelle's mother said that her daughter worked from morning to night, but failed to solve the problem, and the house has been in a semi-construction state.
"Despite her efforts, the house still has no roof and scaffolding everywhere."
In the end, the house became a "big pit".
Michelle was supposed to be cornered and wanted to take a shortcut to get quick money, and it was at this time that she met Ms. Chong. Michelle saw that the old lady was kind and helpful, better to pua and control, and hit the old lady with the idea.
They only met in August 2020, but their relationship has grown by leaps and bounds under Michelle's deliberate push. In the September chat, Michelle began to discuss the old lady's will and who would inherit her house.
Only a month after knowing each other, I inquired about people's property and wills, which is obviously a hidden evil intention.
But the old lady regarded her as a close friend and a good sister.
"In an email, the deceased (the old lady) said to Michelle, 'I am honored to have you as my sister and glad that you accepted me as your friend and gave me advice...'"
Soon, Michelle proposed that the old lady transfer the house to her to avoid the inheritance tax.
Although the old lady was more credulous to her, she was not stupid enough to be at her mercy, and directly refused the proposal to transfer the house.
Michelle can't make a plan, regenerate a plan, the house can't get it, then take the money.
Since November 2020, the two have been discussing the work of Michelle's house frequently, a "big hole" that needs at least £400,000 to fill.
That's a lot of money for the vast majority of people, but Michelle has been pressuring the old lady to ask her for the money directly!
It is unimaginable that non-relatives and non-relatives have only known each other for a few months, and they can ask others for such a large amount of money with a straight face.
Probably entangled, the old lady agreed to invest £200,000 but demanded that the house be used for Christian worship.
But then she changed her mind and stopped throwing money, perhaps it was this decision that made Michelle feel that the duck in her hand had flown and decided that the fish died and the net broke.
At 1 a.m. on June 8, 2021, Ms. Chong sent a message to Michelle, saying
"I don't want you to come back to me or come to my house until you sell it, I'm under too much pressure."
Michelle's reply seemed normal, but she never agreed to sell the house, and the two were deadlocked.
Two days later, a social worker called the old lady and her tenant, David, to show that she was still alive on the last day.
On the morning of June 11, the tenant David went to work and returned to the old lady's house in the evening, but he never saw her.
"At 10.48pm, he contacted the police, reported her disappearance, told them he hadn't seen Ms. Chong since the night of the 10th and that her phone and glasses were still at home."
An old lady who is almost 70 years old and physically and mentally fragile, who does not even have a mobile phone or glasses, where can she go?
People hoped she was just lost and would return soon, but half a month later, the headless female corpse found in a woodland in Devon shattered their hopes.
The body was found by a family walking their dog, and on June 27, 2021, they were walking on the beach and returned from the beach to their holiday cabin when they suddenly made a terrible discovery: a woman's headless body was lying on the road.
They quickly called the police, who arrived and cordoned off the area.
A few days later, on July 1, the severed head was found in the bushes about ten meters from the body.
The body was identified as Mee Kuen Chong, 67.
The autopsy report revealed that the body was found only a few days after her death. The head has been completely separated from the body.
A fracture of the skull, which proves that the head also showed signs of being attacked.
At first, the police regarded the case as an "unexplained" death, which triggered the dissatisfaction of many Asian netizens: such a murderous murder, a sentence can not be explained is sloppy?
And some Asian-American groups believe that this is clearly a hate crime against Asians, and the police "lack of attention" to it.
Later, further police investigations finally pointed the finger at the murder, and just 10 days after the body was found, Michelle was arrested.
On the day the old lady disappeared, at 8 a.m., Michelle went to her house with an empty blue suitcase, according to surveillance footage.
It must have been this morning that she attacked the old lady's head and beheaded her.
All the anatomical knowledge she learned in school was used to kill an innocent old lady.
Shortly after 1 p.m., she left Ms. Chong's house with a blue suitcase already full of "stuff."
"That box is obviously heavy and hard to handle. Inside is the body of Mee Kuen Chong. ”
She dragged the box down the street for two hours, moved the body to another place for two weeks, and then rented a car to transport the body from London to Devonshire to dump the body.
Not only was the process recorded by surveillance footage along the road, but even her rented car was found out, and the evidence was conclusive.
And her motive for committing the crime is money.
In addition to the early chat records can be seen that she has been putting pressure on the old lady to get the "investment" from her, after killing and beheading the old lady, she also forged the old lady's will to inherit all her inheritance, which is really chilling.
However, the murder was gruesome in both the facts and details, but it did not attract the corresponding attention in the UK.
From this case, some Asian groups once again feel the "hostile indifference" of Britain to the Asian population, even if Ms. Chong's death was not racially motivated, and the relatively silent reaction of public opinion after her tragic killing was disappointing.
In recent years, hate attacks against Asians have increased markedly globally, particularly in Western Europe and North America.
The occurrence of one tragedy after another has made people unable to remain silent, so the reports of the murder of Mee Kuen Chong have aroused widespread concern in the Asian community.
In the half-month from her disappearance to the discovery of her body, there were no viral search posts on social media, no urgent television broadcasts calling for information from the public, and no sustained media coverage.
Nothing but a handful of individuals trying to get the public's attention, posting short notices on local news sites in London.
It is reported that 170,000 people go missing every year in the UK, and 1 person goes missing every 90 seconds, but only a small number of cases can occupy the attention of the media and social networks, most of which are silent cases like Ms Chong.
The missing and the victims are also divided into three, six, and nine, and Asians are often one of the most neglected and voiceless groups.
Tam, a British Chinese netizen who is one of those trying to call attention to Ms. Chong's case online, is the chairman of End the Racism Virus, which works to tackle structural racism problems targeting communities in East and Southeast Asia.
After Ms. Chong's disappearance, several Malaysian-Chinese community workers in London told Tam about the incident, and she was very upset that Tam had been trying to raise awareness of the case from all sides, but with little success.
She said in an interview,
"She (Ms. Chong) was found without a head, such a terrible case, but still did not cause more repercussions."
The conclusion is that there is a general lack of media attention to crimes against Asian communities.
With the recent trial, the case has gained some coverage, but from the whole process, the victim's race still makes her invisible to some extent.
The murderer in this case is faced with a mountain of ironclad evidence, although he admits that the person photographed on the surveillance video is her, but still denies the murder.
The trial continues, and it is hoped that there will be a fair trial in the law, so that the murderer will pay the due price and let the deceased rest in peace.
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