Man jailed for accidentally killing girlfriend during abusive ‘weight-loss’ regime

A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to three years and nine months in jail for unwittingly suffocating his girlfriend to death while trying to dispose of her body after she passed out during a supposed weight-loss programme that required her to avoid sleeping.
The High Court on Monday accepted that former abattoir worker Ng Ka-sing was genuinely remorseful and had little likelihood of reoffending, noting that the 29-year-old required psychological treatment to help him recover from the trauma of...