A retired HK police officer told me about a bizarre case of
the restless spirit of a loan shark who haunted his murderers until they were
arrested and convicted. He wanted my opinion if it was indeed the spirit who
sought revenge or it was merely the consciences of the murderers; or it was
indeed the spirit who was behind the work… This case happened around 1996 and
it is one of the murdered case that was convicted without physical evidence,
i.e. the body of the loan shark was never recovered until today.
While this story is still fresh in my memory…
Somewhere in 1996, the
sister of a loan shark visited a local police station to report a case of
missing person. According to the lady, her brother; Mark has gone missing for
months after a trip to mainland China. She suspected Mark has died because she
dreamed of Mark’s spirit returned to her telling her to take care of their dad.
In addition, the spirit also told his sister to look for a person named Mah.
The police officers
certainly didn’t believe the lady but due to professionalism, they passed the bizarre
case to CID nonetheless. A team was formed to look into the matter and
investigators found Mark’s loan record in his bedroom. Interestingly speaking,
amongst the list of borrowers; there was indeed a person named ‘Mah’. Mah was
subsequently summoned to the police station for further investigation.
It was truly out of the CID’s
expectation, Mah swiftly confessed of participated in the murdering of Mark,
the loan shark. According to Mah, he together with other 3 pals murdered Mark
because they couldn’t afford to repay their debts worth of around HKD300,000.
It was out of their expectation that after the murder, Mark’s spirit haunted
them almost every day. They saw the ghost in their drawers, bedroom, bathroom
etc. until so much so that all of the four couldn’t sleep and subsequently lost
their appetite. The gang tried to move to Macau to escape the haunt of restless
ghost but Mark’s spirit continued its pursue until none of them dared to turn
off the lights after dark. This condition continued until Mah was summoned for
investigation…
Coincidentally, during the interrogation
of Mah; his beeper beeped. It was Mah’s 3 other friends. So a trap was set and
two of the three pals were successfully arrested during the first attempt
leaving the last one at large for the time being. After a few days, the last
person surrendered himself and he too confessed to the murder of Mark.
The problem now is that
although the culprits were nabbed, but the body was never found. According to
Mah’s statement, Mark’s body was chopped into a few pieces and thrown into land
refilled area a month ago. Also according to the HK environmental team, Mark’s
body was probably buried under hundreds of tons of trash if they were to exhume
the remains. That would take a few hundreds of personnel to work 24x7 for 3
months or so; not to mention to waste millions of tax payers’ money… added to
that it was virtually impossible to find Mark’s remains after all this time.
So the public prosecutor
went on with the four’s testimonies and all of them were convicted; two were
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Personally, I would like to
think that it was the four persons’ consciences that caused them to physically ‘see’
Mark’s ghost. Perhaps the four have no intention to kill Mark and they felt
awfully sorry for that mishap to have occurred. Should Mah and his pals just
forget about the murder of Mark, then Mark’s apparition would not have
materialize in front of the fellows. I would rather praise the police’s
professionalism in tackling the case instead of attributing it to spiritual
influences.
This is also a warning to
all the loan sharks: perhaps you are bad enough to squeeze people’s hard earn
money; people who owe your money can take your life too!
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