The Sau Mau Ping Gangs Corpse Burning Case, which happened
in 14th May 1997, was a juvenile delinquency case that
occurred in Hong Kong. The victim, Lu Zhi Wei, who is aged at 16, was one of the gang’s
members before he was killed by the other gang members. There were altogether
14 defendants, who were under 18 at the time they commit the crime. The
reason why Lu was killed by the gangsters is that Lu persuaded a mentally ill patient
with surname
Chan who
was bullied by the gangsters to report to the police. Because of Lu’s betrayal, he was lured to room 1508 by other gangsters
and
suffered from punishments. Different kinds of inhumane
treatments were carried out on Lu, including a constant barrage of kicks,
punches, and blows with poles, wooden sticks, folding stools and, finally,
metal water pipes. In the beginning, Lu was mauled by the boys only. However,
the girls joined to kick and punch Lu later. Although Lu screamed in pain, the
gangsters continue to beat Lu. One of the gangsters had asked the others to let
Lu go, but they said that Lu had to apologize. Later on, Lu was laid on the
floor with blood and showed no breathing as a result of those inhumane
treatments. The gangsters attempted to rescue Lu by using tissue to stop Lu
from bleeding. However, Lu did not survive. Finally, Lu died under their torture. So, the gangsters
burned Lu’s
corpse and dumped it into a trash room in order to
destroy the evidence[1].
