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A British businessman has allegedly murdered an Indonesian working as a maid in Hong Kong.
DailyMail.com reports that the lady was working to send some money to her family before her death. They were reported to be lovers.
The man Jamie Chapman is accused of killing Mevi Novitasari after a night-time assignation at a waterfall beauty spot. The man is said to be in custody in Hong Kong.
Chapman is from Surrey and has a wife and son in Hong Kong.
It has been claimed that Chapman and Novitasari entered the park together. However, the man left alone. It was not until the next morning that the body of the lady was found at the foot of the waterfall with serious head injuries.
She was a single mother working as a maidservant in Hong Kong and sending a few hundred pounds a month to her five-year-old daughter and parents in Cilacap, Java, Indonesia. She had planned to return home while awaiting her two-year Hong Kong visa renewal.
Her grieving mother said, “We were eagerly expecting her home, but instead, we received the news of her passing. We are shocked by her untimely death.”
After hearing rumors of her passing on social media, the family received a call from the Indonesian consulate in Hong Kong. The Association of Former Migrant Workers of Indonesia visited the family on Saturday.
Indonesian Migrant Workers of Hong Kong organized a demonstration on the island of Victoria Park. This gave some of them the opportunity to complain of harsh working conditions in Chinese homes with little government protection.
They are campaigning for a guaranteed 11 rest hours per 24-hour day – eight to sleep, three to relax, and a limit of 13 hours of daily labor.
