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World● Low5d ago · Nov 2, 2026, 12:50 PM

Ex-boyfriend planned to kill yoga instructor, Hong Kong murder trial hears

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · East Asia

A 23-year-old yoga instructor was found dead floating in a blood-filled bathtub in a luxury Hong Kong hotel room after sustaining more than 40 wounds, a court heard on the opening day of her former boyfriend’s murder trial. Prosecutors told a High Court jury on Monday that the accused, Alex Lo Chun-ming, planned to kill his ex-girlfriend Chow Wai-yin with a sharp knife at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in West Kowloon on June 29 and 30, 2022. Chow, known as “Aqua”, was popular on social media and had...

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