Human Head And Legs Found In Garbage

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Missing Head And Legs Found In Kallang Body-Parts Murder Case

SINGAPORE : Police believe they have found the severed head of murder victim Liu Hong Mei.

The case came to light when two boxes containing her body parts - her upper torso and lower half of her body, severed at the pelvis and knee joints - were found along the Kallang River on Thursday.

Police investigations showed that the remaining body parts of the 22-year-old Chinese factory worker were dumped into the Singapore River.

It tracked down the river cleaning company which was about to burn three tonnes worth of river trash it picked up from the Singapore River since Wednesday, but Criminal Investigation Department officers managed to stop the operation at an incineration plant in Tuas in the nick of time.

The trash is usually incinerated straightaway. Fortunately the police managed to intercept this batch of river trash just half an hour before they were to go into the incinerator.

DSP Adrian Quek, Head of Special Investigation Section with the Criminal Investigation Department said: "We had to literally, physically go through three tonnes of garbage, opening up every single plastic bag to make sure it's not what we are looking for. So in the midst of the search, we managed to discover a yellow plastic bag. And when we opened it up, we found something wrapped inside a newspaper and on further examination, we realised it was a human head. The head was partially decomposed but we could still see very prominent features such as the ear and the length of the hair. It appeared to be at least shoulder length hair."

Four hours after locating what was believed to be the victim's head, the police found Liu's lower limbs in a white plastic bag among the trash collected the Singapore River at 8.30pm Saturday evening.

Police will be conducting tests to make sure that the body parts indeed belong to the victim.

Now, the only body parts missing are her feet, which police say may have been disposed of elsewhere.