23 Facts About Lam Kor-wan

Lam Kor-wan is one of Hong Kong's most notorious serial killers.

In December 1962, Lam Kor-wan returned to Hong Kong with his family and moved into his own home in Kwun Tong, where he attended a government elementary school, usually in the top ten.

In 1970, Lam Kor-wan's father opened a store selling motorcycles and asked him to help out in the shop after school every day, which led to a decline in Lam Kor-wan's grades and a deterioration in his relationship with his father, who often scolded him and drove him away from home.

In early 1973, Lam Kor-wan was expelled from his home after an argument with his father.

Lam Kor-wan was arrested after he threatened a woman with a knife and touched her lower body with his hand near a public toilet in Hok Yuen Street, Hung Hom.

When Lam Kor-wan was about 19 years old, his family noticed that he was behaving abnormally and was interested in female flesh.

Lam Kor-wan was later caught peeping at his sister's naked body outside the toilet of his residence in Kwun Tong.

One year after Lam Kor-wan worked as a night-time cab driver, his mother noticed that his behaviour had changed significantly, such as his refusal to change clothes and take a shower, and his depressed behaviour.

Lam Kor-wan, who worked as a taxi driver, would pick up female passengers, strangle them with electrical wire, take them to his family home, and dismember them.

Lam Kor-wan was a keen photographer and frequently took pictures and video of his victims, even filming himself performing an act of necrophilia with his fourth victim.

Lam Kor-wan shared his bedroom with his brother, who was unaware of his activities; Lam Kor-wan worked the night shift, so he was able to dismember victims at home during the daytime without his immediate family finding out.

The next day, after the people in the house had gone out, Lam Kor-wan stripped the body of its clothes and took pictures of the body.

Lam Kor-wan was then handcuffed and strangled to death with an electric cord.

Lam Kor-wan took the body home to take pictures and video of the dismemberment.

Lam Kor-wan even cut the abdomen of Leung, picked out the intestines, and put them in his mouth to taste.

Lam Kor-wan had the urge to taste human flesh but finally gave up because he felt sick.

Lam Kor-wan was arrested by plainclothes officers on 17 August 1982.

Lam Kor-wan had attempted to develop photographs of one of his dismembered victims at a Kodak shop.

When confronted, Lam Kor-wan claimed that the photographs belonged to a friend of his who worked on a ship who would meet him shortly; when the man did not appear the police accompanied Lam Kor-wan to his parents' first-floor apartment on Kwei Chau Street and performed a search.

On 8 April 1983, at the end of a long three-week trial with a seven-man jury, Lam Kor-wan was found guilty of four counts of murder and sentenced to death by hanging.

On 29 August 1984, Lam Kor-wan's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after Sir Edward Youde accepted Lam Kor-wan's mercy plea, as was the tradition before the abolition of the death penalty in Hong Kong in 1993.

Lam Kor-wan is currently serving his life sentence at the maximum-security Shek Pik Prison, although he was originally serving his sentence in Stanley Prison.

Lam Kor-wan is portrayed by Hong Kong actor Simon Yam in the movie Dr Lamb.