Choi, 28, was a mannequin and influencer who shared her glamorous lifetime of picture shoots and vogue exhibits with greater than 100,000 followers on Instagram. Wearing a tulle floor-length robe, she had simply attended a Dior present at Paris Vogue Week.

Her final submit was greater than every week in the past, that includes a photoshoot she had carried out with L’Officiel Monaco, a vogue publication.

Choi had monetary disputes involving tens of hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong {dollars} along with her ex-husband and his household, police stated earlier, including that “some individuals” had been sad with how Choi dealt with her monetary belongings.

Her good friend, Bernard Cheng, stated she has 4 kids: two sons ages 10 and three and two daughters ages 8 and 6. The elder two had been with Kwong, 28, and the youthful kids had been along with her present husband, Chris Tam.

Tam stated he was very grateful to have had Choi in his life and praised her for being supportive, good friend Pao Jo-yee relayed in a Fb submit.

“When Abby was alive, she’s a really form individual and at all times wished to assist individuals,” he was quoted within the submit. “I really feel anybody who might be her household and mates are blessed.”

Pao, who’s married to Cheng, informed The Related Press that she has identified Choi for over seven years and Choi handled individuals round her nicely.

“She is that kind of individual that wouldn’t have enemies,” she stated.

Cheng stated Choi had superb relationships along with her relations and would journey with the households of her present and former husbands collectively. Choi’s present father-in-law is a founding father of one of many metropolis’s well-known noodle chains, native newspaper The Normal reported.

Choi had been lacking for a number of days when police discovered her dismembered physique and paperwork Friday, together with her legs in a fridge, in the home in Lung Mei Tsuen, a suburban a part of Hong Kong a couple of 30-minute drive from the border with mainland China.

Her case is likely one of the most stunning, violent killings Hong Kong has seen since 2013, when a person killed his dad and mom and their heads had been later present in fridges. In one other well-known 1999 case, a girl was kidnapped and tortured by three members from an organized crime group earlier than her demise. Her cranium was later discovered stuffed in a Hi there Kitty doll.

The ugly killing of Choi has gripped many in Hong Kong because the southern Chinese language metropolis is extensively thought of secure with a really low degree of violent crime. Throughout the border in mainland China, on-line dialogue over her case went viral on social media.

On Sunday, authorities found a younger girl’s cranium believed to be Choi’s in one of many cooking pots that was seized. Officers imagine {that a} gap on the appropriate rear of the cranium is the place the deadly assault struck her.

The listening to of the homicide case was adjourned to Could.