Apple Daily 08-11-2008

Apple daily Newspaper 8-11-08
The murder case happened last night, Kuen’s (Ken Cheung) South African friend, Ho (Jimmy Shum), reported to the press about the whole incident:
Ken planned on moving back to Hong Kong, so he was in the process of privately selling his furniture. Last night, Ken organized with a private buyer to meet at McDonalds to direct him to his house to look at his furniture. However, his roommate tried calling him on his cellphone because he hasn’t gone home after a long time, but no one answered so he asked Jimmy to go seek for him.
Jimmy stated that he lives very close to the McDonalds Ken was meeting the buyer, so he drove over to search for him. However he could not find him so he drove around and found Ken’s car parked nearby on the side of the road already surrounded by a troop of policemen. As Jimmy rushed to the scene, all he saw was Ken’s dead body, the police at the scene could not explain the reason for his death either. According to Jimmy, the private buyer was introduced to Ken by another friend, unsure about his nationality, but assuming he is Chinese.
According to “African Newspaper” the incident happened at around 9pm, because of the bad crime rate in South Africa, people are seldom on the streets at night. At the crime scene, neighbours said that they heard loud arguments which was followed by the sound of a gun shot, they came out and saw Ken’s dead body in his car, doors wide open and ignition still switched on - No one saw the murderer.
Owing to the fact that Ken’s wallet and cell phone was not stolen, the police is needs to go under further investigation about the murder.
Ken’s dear friends are all shocked by this murder incident and cannot understand who would do such a thing to him. Ken’s godfather, Mr Chan expressed that the 23-year-old Ken immigrated to South Africa with his family when he was very young, he uses “diligent”, “warm-hearted” and “ambitious” to describe him. Besides his parents, Ken was also very close with his two older sisters.
As an immigrant from Hong Kong, Mr Chan also expressed that South Africa’s crime scene is intolerable. Ken’s parents and sisters decided to return to Hong Kong to seek for better career opportunities after staying in SA for some time, they tried to persuade Ken to go with them, but he knows that it’s difficult to develop a career in Biology/Chemistry so he decided to study further on in order to secure his future in this field. Ken was a Masters student at the University of Pretoria, after completing his course, he planned on joining his family in Hong Kong. He even booked his ticket to go back on the 20th Dec 08.
His godmother, Mrs Chan sorrowfully expressed herself after hearing the shocking news from Ken’s friend, “He is a good kid, very out-going, unlikely to argue with others. It’s so hard to accept that he’s gone.” She also said that Ken wanted to develop in successful career in Biochemistry.
Jimmy pointed out that Ken is popular and knows many friends, nationalities from Asians, Caucasians and Africans; most of them he met through school and university. Besides from having close friends, Ken has also been in a stable relationship with an Asian girl for around 1 year; he enjoys being involved with clubs organized by the university, playing soccer with friends. He is a scholarship student hence there he has no financial problems. Ken is very humble, very seldom have arguments with anyone, every one who once knew him are all deeply hurt by this tragedy.
Jimmy also confessed that there has been many cases where murder was involved in connection to robberies, but most of the incidents occur in areas of Johannesburg, not Pretoria.
This case has been passed onto the Chinese consulate in South Africa for further investigation.