A 54-year-old South Korean man was detained while entering the city on Thursday for allegedly killing his local girlfriend three years ago, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said on Friday.
According to the spokesperson, in January 2014 a rotten stench was emanating from a flat near the Barrier Gate plaza. The police broke into the flat and found the corpse of the victim, who they believed had been dead for 10 days.
The spokesperson said that the victim went to the flat on January 6, 2014 and did not leave again and soon people lost contact with her. Autopsy results showed that the victim died in the early hours of January 7, 2014 and that she had been suffocated.
Based on the PJ investigation, the South Korean man had been renting the flat since 2013 and the victim moved in with him in December the same year, leading the police to believe that both lived there as a couple.
The spokesperson said that the suspect had left Macau 10 days before the murder was discovered and that he had been using the victim’s mobile phone.
Upon his arrest, the suspect denied the crime, the spokesperson said, adding that the police were still investigating the possible motive.
