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Another murder case that caused a stir occurred at Ming Yuet Building at the junction of Pao Zhan Street and Ma Hang Chung Road. The incident happened in 1974. The Gong family originally lived in the high-rise of Mingyue Building. As the father and eldest son lived in Pingzhou and managed the hardware factory, the eldest daughter also moved out due to her marriage, leaving Gong's mother and her seventeenth daughter. The 20-year-old daughter lives in To Kwa Wan, and the mother and daughter go to Ping Chau every weekend to stay and reunite with their father and brother. On the day of the incident, Gong Nu stayed alone in her apartment because she had to go to school, but she was raped and killed. When Gong's mother returned to her residence in To Kwa Wan from Ping Chau, she not only found that the house had been ransacked, but she was also shocked to see the disheveled body of the young girl lying on the bed in the room. Her lower body clothes had been taken down to her thighs. Her whole body was covered in black bruises and her neck was strangled. A men's tie, a horrible death. The murderer was Li Wenhui, a 25-year-old criminal who was dubbed by the media as the "flying cockroach" who climbed into drains and sneaked into houses to rob the house. After Li Wenhui was arrested, he denied murder. Although this case was the first case in Hong Kong to be prosecuted using circumstantial evidence alone, the jury broke the record of the year and left the court to deliberate for twelve hours. In the end, it ruled that the defendant was not guilty of murder. Li Wenhui was released on the spot and Showing a sly smile. Since then, there have been rumors that the ghosts of the deceased are still lingering at the scene of the murder because the murderer has always been at large. After Ms. Gong was killed, some former residents of the building saw someone who looked like Ms. Gong walking back and forth in the corridor of the building with their heads lowered and sobbing in the middle of the night. There were also neighbors who heard the murder late at night. The faint sound of a woman screaming could be heard in the house, which made people shudder.
Although Li Wenhui was not arrested immediately after committing the crime, he was later sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in multiple rape and burglary cases. It was not until 2004, thirty years later, that this unjust case, which had been forgotten by people, developed dramatically. At that time, Li Wenhui, a life sentence prisoner who had served more than 20 years in Stanley Prison, suddenly wrote to the then Commissioner of Police Li Mingkui, admitting that he raped and murdered Gong Nu in Ming Yue Building in 1974. A prisoner who was in the same cell as the murderer said that Li Wenhui's sudden self-defense was actually because he was haunted by the ghost of Gong, which made him sleep uneasy every night. He was often pressed into bed by the ghost, and was woken up in the middle of the night screaming, asking for a dream report. He paid for it with his life, and for thirty years he kept asking Li Wenhui to kill people to make up for his death. In the end, Li couldn't bear the torture, and could only be freed by atonement.
