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Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Hong Kong · 2024

Hong Kong: life imprisonment for the death of a disabled disciple declared spirit-possessed

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled Taoist priest and feng shui master with a 'spirit disciple'

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

CORE, and among the corpus's starkest: an intellectually disabled woman held as a 'spirit disciple' and killed by the ritual itself — with her own mother convicted alongside, showing the authority reaching through the family to reach her.

  • Exorcism or deliverance
  • Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2024-10-18 · convictions and sentence

    High Court of Hong Kong (Judge Judianna Barnes). Cheung Tsz-choi, a self-styled Taoist priest and feng shui master, was sentenced on 18 October 2024 to life imprisonment for the murder of Wu Enyu, a twenty-one-year-old intellectually disabled woman he had declared spirit-possessed and taken as a 'spirit disciple', and to ten years concurrent for indecent assault. She died of alcohol poisoning after being force-fed during 'exorcisms', her body bearing some eighty injury marks. Her mother, aged 57, was convicted of aiding and abetting the indecent assault and received ten years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • the victim declared spirit-possessed and subjected to 'exorcisms'
  • beatings and force-feeding of alcohol as ritual treatment
  • the victim's intellectual disability and total dependence

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Hong Kong court report of the life sentence, 18 Oct. 2024.

Court reporting of the sentencing.

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