Model Abby Choi’s dismemberment haunts individuals who worked along with her in the weeks before the rising model’s brutal murder, The Post has learned.
Choi, 28, whose mutilated stays were found Friday in pots and a refrigerator in a house in suburban Hong Kong, previously told her greater than 100,000 Instagram followers about her latest feat as a model: putting on the cover of a luxury fashion magazine.
“From Hong Kong to the cover of L’Officiel Monaco, my journey as a method icon continues” – Choi shipped February fifteenth.
Just weeks earlier, Choi had made a long-lasting impression on the crew at a L’Officiel Monaco photo shoot in Paris – including hairstylist Yohannie Jouvanceau, who said he still couldn’t recover from the young model’s gruesome death.
“I’ll admit I actually have a bit of a tough time coming to terms with… the harsh reality of this story, and I often think of Abby,” Jouvanceau told The Post on Tuesday as investigators scoured the landfill for Choi’s missing body parts.
“Her death is more tragic because … there’s nothing worse than what happened to her,” continued the French hairdresser.
Authorities suspect that Choi’s unemployed ex-husband, Alex Kwong, and his family killed her because of a property in the exclusive Kadoorie Hill district of Ho Man Tin, reportedly value hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Based on Morning mail from southern Chinaa police source said Choi bought the place on behalf of her former father-in-law, Kwong Kau, and planned to sell it – allegedly to his dismay.
Choi’s chauffeur and former brother-in-law, Anthony Kwong Kong-kit, allegedly drove the model to select up her daughter; as a substitute, she was not seen again and was reported missing by her second husband, identified in the local press as Tam Chuk Kwan.
Three days after Choi’s disappearance, the police discovered two women’s legs in the refrigerator of the apartment Kwong Kau had rented just just a few days earlier. An electrical saw, a meat slicer, a hammer, face shields and raincoats, in addition to Choi’s handbag, were also recovered from the house.
Based on the South China Morning Post, there was also a pot for cooking radishes, carrots and what’s believed to be human flesh, and one other pot containing human bones. Hong Kong police said Choi’s severed head was boiled until only the skull remained, the London Times reports.
An autopsy found the young mum had a big hole behind her right ear, Hong Kong police he said at a Sunday press conference.
Choi’s ex-husband, ex-father-in-law and ex-brother-in-law have all been accused of her murder.
Choi remarried and was accompanied by her second husband for a photo shoot for the cover of the prestigious Paris Fashion Week on January 22, Jouvanceau said.
“The day went thoroughly because Abby was very nice,” he said. “Her companion too.”
The hairdresser recalled how Choi called his children when he was perfecting her appearance. Choi was the mother of 4 children aged 3 to 10. Kwong’s ex-husband, 28, was the father of two older men; the rest she shared with Tam, whom the model reportedly married in 2016.
The Tam family owns the popular TamJai Yunnan Mixian restaurant chain in Hong Kong and mainland China.
Prior to her murder, Choi, who worked with fashion brands equivalent to Dior and Chanel, documented her life as a world-traveling fashion influencer on Instagram — sharing countless couture looks and photos with luminaries equivalent to rapper Pharrell Williams, South Korean model Lee Soo-hyuk AND Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad.
“Embracing every moment of life,” reads the biography of Choi’s account that had 139,000 followers from Wednesday.
Choi wrote to Jouvanceau on February 15 after she posted her L’Officiel Monaco cover on Instagram to thank him for “this beautiful project we did,” he said.
“A number of days later I learned of this terrible news,” added Jouvanceau. “Knowing that she died in such conditions will probably be perpetually etched in my memory.”
L’Officiel Monaco described Choi as a fashion icon and media personality, while noting the trendsetter’s “impeccable sense of style” and his boundless passion for fashion.
“I’m a one that is continually inspired and at all times trying latest styles” – Choi he told the magazine. “Sometimes I also try to decorate more flamboyantly by mixing and matching different styles.”
A photographer during a shoot in Paris said he spent many hours with Choi, calling her “gracious” and “kind.”
The Parisian photographer, who asked to not be named, noticed her rapid entry into the fashion world.
“She has managed to make a reputation for herself internationally, which isn’t easy,” said the photographer.
“I could not imagine a one that is so good, so loving, so innocent that a one that does nothing unsuitable can be killed like this,” Choi’s friend Bernard Cheng told the Associated Press. “My heart remains to be heavy. I am unable to sleep well.
Hong Kong police search the Latest Northeast Territories landfill in rural Hong Kong’s Ta Kwu Ling section for evidence related to Choi’s murder, including the missing arms and torso. She was last seen alive on February 21 near Kowloon City.
The late model’s former mother-in-law, Jenny Li, can be facing charges of perverting the course of justice. All 4 suspects who’ve yet to testify are being jailed without bail as the case has been adjourned until May 8. It isn’t clear whether or not they have hired lawyers to talk on their behalf.
With postal wires