A Hong Kong grandmother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her six-year-old grandson in a local love hotel early Sunday.
Strangulation marks were found around the boy’s neck.
Police were alerted at 12.54am that the boy had fallen into a coma at the Beverly Hotel in Wan Chai.
The child was sent to hospital but certified dead at 2.28am, a police source said.
Chief Inspector Wan Kai-ming said a length of strapping believed to be from the grandmother’s backpack was found at the scene.
Police sources said the woman, 52, had taken the boy on a tour of Hong Kong Island and had checked into the hotel because they were both tired.
It is understood that the killing took place in the hotel, which is located in the Capital Building on Lockhart Road, and the pair checked into their room late on Saturday afternoon.
The boy was from a single-parent family. He lived with his mother and grandmother in Yiu On Estate – a public housing complex in Ma On Shan, Sha Tin, according to police sources.
A police source said the boy was believed to have suffered from a hyperactivity disorder. “His grandmother took care of him most of the time because his mother had to work.”
Wan added that it had yet to be proved whether the boy or grandmother had a mental disorder.
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