Daily Mail;
Date: October 18, 2019
By: Jack Newman
- Chan Tong-kai, 20, murdered Poon Hiu-wing during a holiday to Taiwan last year
- He fled back to Hong Kong where there is no extradition agreement with Taiwan
- Hong Kong's government then rammed through a sweeping extradition bill
- But the move sparked huge protests which are now in their 20th week
A man who inadvertently triggered Hong Kong's huge protests after he murdered his girlfriend in Taiwan has agreed to return to the island to face justice, a clergyman who has visited him in prison said on Friday.
Chan Tong-kai, 20, is wanted in Taiwan for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend during a holiday the two Hong Kongers took there in February last year.
He fled back to the southern Chinese city where Taiwanese police were unable to apprehend him because there was no extradition agreement between Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The case triggered an ill-fated proposal by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing government to ram through a sweeping extradition bill which would have allowed the city to extradite suspects to any territory, including the authoritarian mainland and Taiwan. [FULL STORY]