Braemar Hill murders

The Braemar Hill murders (Chinese: 寶馬山雙屍案) occurred in British Hong Kong on 20 April 1985, when local British teenagers Kenneth McBride and Nicola Myers were killed by a group of five young gangsters on Braemar Hill, Hong Kong.

Myers' body was found half naked, her jaw broken, and her left eyeball out of its socket.

[4] According to Won's evidence, Pang was the leader of the group, and he suggested they steal a cable from the government aerial station on the mountain for some extra cash.

[citation needed] After several failed attempts to steal the cable, the group spotted McBride and Myers.

The family searched for the couple, and phoned the Royal Hong Kong Police after failing to locate them.

More than 800 policemen and several personnel from the British Forces Overseas Hong Kong were sent to search the crime scene.

However, due to the infancy of forensic science at that time, insufficient evidence was found to trace the murderer(s).

All five of the assailants were found guilty by Judge Lee Frost and convicted on 18 January 1987 at the Court of First Instance, by a unanimous vote.

Pang and Chiu remain in prison, at Kam Heu Correctional Institution in Yuen Long.

The other two killers, Cheung and Won (both born in 1968), were underage at the time of the crime and were sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure at a juvenile prison.

[citation needed] After the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the law required Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa to determine the terms of Won and Cheung.

Won would later say upon release from Stanley Prison in 2004, in front of the press, that receiving forgiveness was both touching and hard to accept, and that he would use the opportunity to reintegrate fully back into society.

Cheung dropped out of school at 14, subsequently working menial jobs in restaurants and opening ferry doors.

[2] The leader of the group, Pang, was a casual worker and a low-level member of the Fuk Yee Hing (福義興) triad society.