The Baoshan case was the worst juvenile homicide in Hong Kong in the 1980s. The case occurred on April 20, 1985, when a British couple studying in Hong Kong were killed, the woman died after being tortured by several gang rapes, and the man was beaten to death. Due to the extreme cruelty of the murder methods and the occurrence of certain incidents after the crime, it caused a sensation in Hong Kong for a while and was listed as one of the ten strange cases in Hong Kong.
Nigola (left, 18 years old) and Kenneth (right, 17 years old)
On April 20, 1985, a British couple attending Hong Kong Island English Children's School, 17-year-old boy Kenneth McBley and 18-year-old Nigola Mayas, disappeared after going to Sai West Lake Park, North Point.
Early the next morning, citizens with morning exercises found the bodies of two people near the BMW Hill Reservoir in North Point, which was still wasteland at the time, and the death was very horrible.
After the experience, it was confirmed that the two were beaten to death by random sticks, and that the female deceased had been raped.
The male deceased, Kenneth, was wearing blue jeans, his shirt was lifted, his hands were tied behind his back, and there were more than a hundred scars on his body; The female deceased, Negora, with the buttons of a beige shirt unbuttoned on her upper body, was almost naked, her left eyeball had protruded outward, her chin had been shattered, her body was injured in more than 500 places, her expression was painful, and she was estimated to die after several hours of death struggle.
The police attached great importance to the case, and sent more than 600 people to search the mountain, and then dispatched helicopters to search from a high altitude, and found Nigola's bottom skirt, bracelets, Chinese-style embroidered shoes, photos of London life, chest buttons, and two severed wooden sticks, one of which was stained with blood, and the other was still wrapped around Nigola's hair. In order to collect clues, the police set up a special telephone number for the case and cordoned off the nearby Zhongxing Building to interview residents with questionnaires.
The police remained clueless for more than six months after the crime, and it is said that one of the presidents of the company where Kenneth's father worked at the time anonymously offered a reward of 500,000 yuan to help the police solve the case.
Finally, the police received a report from an informant that the informant overheard Peng Xinyi, the main culprit in the case, boasting to a friend that he had killed a "ghost boy", and pointed out that the sneakers on his feet belonged to the "ghost boy", so the informant followed Peng Xinyi home and reported to the police.
More than 100 detectives immediately followed up the investigation, and on 28 November 1985, the police arrested the three adult defendants Peng Xinyi, Tam Shihuan and Chiu Waiwen, as well as minor accomplices Yin Sanlong and Zhang Youheng, and the test results confirmed that the No. 9 sneakers worn by Peng Xinyi were indeed owned by Kenneth.
Under police interrogation, they finally told the truth about that bloody Saturday on April 20.
According to Yin Sanlong's confession, on the day of the crime, Peng Xinyi, Tan Shihuan, Zhang Youheng, Yin Sanlong, Zhao Weiwen, a total of five people, passed through Baoshan, and he and two of them were helping people drive the door to make money on that day, Peng Xinyi was the leader of their group, he proposed to steal the government's copper wire, in exchange for some money to eat, drink and have fun. But he didn't steal it, so he decided to rob someone, and Peng Xinyi took four other people over the mountain to the BMW Mountain, where he lived and was very familiar with it. They later found Kenneth and Negola reviewing.
Yin Sanlong's confession also said that when they saw Kenneth and the two, they thought that since they were Europeans, they must be rich.
Peng Xinyi asked them to scatter and surround them from two directions. Unfortunately, the Kenneths did not find anything of value and wanted to defend themselves. This infuriated Peng Xinyi and began to frantically carry out the beatings. He also asked them to hold him down so that he would not struggle, and threatened that everyone would beat him and that no one would take it off. Peng casually picked up a wooden stick and said to the other four, "Might as well go over and play with them!" "They snatched Kenneth's gold watch, and Peng Xinyi's request to have sex with Nigola was refused, so he beat her with a club, dragged her down the mountain and raped her, and later asked the others "if they want"; Then he used his barbecue fork to scare the other four and told them to kill them to avoid future problems. As a result, the five men put a wooden stick on Kenneth's neck, then vigorously stepped on the "rocker", removed the bandage on Kenneth's shoulder and strangled his neck with Negora's dress, Kenneth struggled painfully, and finally died of anger. After knocking Kenneth unconscious, Peng Xinyi began to violently attack Nigola and raped her. Others smoked nearby, while Peng asked them "if they wanted."
After that, they put wooden sticks and soda bottles into Nigola's pussy until he passed out, and then beat him with wooden sticks, resulting in Nigola losing his life and dying, which is the whole story of the BMW Mountain double corpse case.
The police charged all five of the arrested murderers with two counts of murder. Only Yin Sanlong confessed to the murder and testified against four of his accomplices.
As a result, a jury convicted each of them in 1987 and sentenced them to death. By 1992, the Governor and the Executive Bureau routinely pardoned their death sentences and commuted their sentences to life imprisonment. Yin Sanlong and Zhang Youheng were sentenced to 'waiting for the Empress to fall' because they were minors.
At that time, Hong Kong had just revoked the death penalty, and the first three were sentenced to life imprisonment (life imprisonment), Yin Sanlong was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Zhang Youheng was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Janny and Nekena returned to their hometown in England for burial.
In 1997, on the eve of Hong Kong's transfer to China, Yin Sanlong and others still did not know the length of their sentence, and their families went to the Hong Kong Governor's House to demonstrate and demand that the Hong Kong government set an actual sentence for the juvenile offenders.
Perhaps even more unthinkable, part of the reason for the final determination of the sentence was the intercession of the victim's parents.
In 1998, the victim, Kenneth's father, wrote to Tung Chee-hwa, then Hong Kong's chief executive, to intercede on Wan Sam Loong, and the chief executive eventually determined that his imprisonment was 27 years.
Yin Sanlong also said that in 1998 he saw a report in prison in which the victim's parents said that they had forgiven and forgiven him, which shocked him and made him understand the importance of forgiveness and forgiveness.
It was not until 2004 that the Hong Kong government allowed Yin to be released from prison in September and reunited with his family.
Looking back at the case, in the process of the police investigating this case, there was a strange episode, and it was this episode that made the BMW Mountain double corpse case dyed with a mysterious cloud.
At that time, in order to solve the case as soon as possible, the president of the company where the victim's father worked issued a reward of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars to all Hong Kong citizens through the newspaper.
Shortly after the bounty was issued, a man led his wife to report the crime to the police. The man's wife is a vegetable vendor, Chinese and does not understand English. Shortly after the BMW double corpse case, the man suddenly found that his wife had become a little strange, and from time to time she would speak a long period of English and was very fluent.
Because of the reward of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars and the egregious nature of the Baoshan double corpse case, almost all newspapers in Hong Kong at that time reported on the case. Hong Kong citizens, the streets and alleys are talking about this case. When the man discovered his wife's strange changes, he thought that his wife might be related to the Baoshan double corpse case, and decided to report to the police.
Bizarre things, or supernatural events, happened to this female vegetable vendor. First of all, she has nothing to do with the case, not even a witness; Secondly, she is a Chinese and does not understand English at all. After receiving the report, the police thought that the situation was special, so they invited Dr. Yang Zhitao, a clinical hypnotist who was serving the Hong Kong police at the time, to hypnotize the female vegetable vendor in order to grasp more relevant information through hypnosis.
After the woman was hypnotized, she seemed to have changed someone, spoke fluent English without flaws, and what the female vegetable vendor said was the relevant details of the case. All the police officers present could feel that her voice was very poignant, as if possessed by a dead Nikona. Finally, she even shouted bitterly: "You help me!"
After this strange episode of the female vegetable seller was reported by the Hong Kong media, for a time, the BMW Hill double corpse case caused a sensation in Hong Kong, and even attracted the attention of the Queen of England at that time! Because of its vicious nature, this case was later listed as one of the top ten strange cases in Hong Kong!
Movies based on the case include "The Case of BMW Hill". Later, director Qiu Litao made a movie "Waiting for Tung Chee-hwa's Fall" based on this incident.