Ong Mitchell, the 43-year-old Singapore citizen, accused of killing his compatriot, the architect Audrey Fang, 39, was remanded yesterday in provisional detention by order of the head of the Cieza Magistrate's Court 3. Mitchell was arrested last Tuesday in Alicante for the murder of the tourist who was found dead on April 10 in a patch of almond trees, near a shop in Abanilla.
Audrey Fang was working at her family's flower arranging store. She had traveled alone to Spain. She stayed on April 4 in a luxury hotel in the Alicante municipality of Jávea and was due to return to her country on the 12th. But she didn't get to catch the plane.
The last image we had of her was captured by a camera at the hotel where she was staying, on April 9, at 8:45 p.m. She had arranged to meet someone she knew who picked her up at the door of the establishment. A security camera captured the moment in which the Singaporean tourist left in a car. Her trace was lost that day and the family reported her missing.
At the same time, the next day the body of a woman was found in Abanilla and the Civil Guard was quick to link the absence of the tourist in Jávea with the body found. The images from the hotel door camera were key and helped the Judicial Police investigators to identify the make and model of the vehicle. That clue took them to Alicante, where the car was again captured by several cameras in a public parking lot near a hotel in the Alicante capital an hour after leaving Jávea.
Audrey Fang.
EFE
There, they also recorded Mitchell taking a parking ticket from a machine and, hours later, he traveled to Abanilla, where the woman's body was found. The suspect returned to his hotel in Alicante, where the Civil Guard detained him last Tuesday afternoon.
Investigators from the Murcia Judicial Police carried out a search of the hotel room where the suspect was staying. During the inspections, they found “evidence of his participation in the crime”, as detailed by Benemérita sources, for which he was arrested as the alleged perpetrator of the homicide. The main suspicion is that the alleged murderer took her in her car from Alicante and killed her on the Abanilla terrace. The agents verified that at that time and in that place their phones were together, according to sources close to the case.
The forensic report indicates, for its part, that the Singaporean tourist died after suffering numerous stab wounds, having around twenty stab wounds on her body, and receiving several blows to the head, as she suffered a head injury, as revealed by the autopsy. . This report rules out, in principle, that she was sexually assaulted, since no physical traces have been found and, furthermore, her body was wearing her underwear.
The judge will continue with the investigation of the open procedure for a crime of homicide or murder, pending the extension of the investigation carried out by the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard.
The delivery of the body to the family for repatriation of the corpse is expected to take place in the next few hours, after judicial authorization. «They are in 'shock'. “Right now what they need is moral support, to give them the greatest personal, emotional and psychological protection,” said Manuel Martínez, the lawyer who will carry out the private prosecution and who accompanied the three relatives to the Cieza courts yesterday.
Audrey Fang and her attacker had known each other for years
When Audrey disappeared, her family scoured social media for clues. In one of them, on Instagram, they discovered that Ong Mitchell was in Spain and a former colleague of Audrey's told them that she told her about him a few years ago. Mitchell is a man 1.90 meters tall, very large and muscular, who dresses in expensive clothes, stayed in luxury hotels and rented high-end cars to get around the country. The type of relationship they had is still a mystery. It is clear to those around them that they knew each other before, but they cannot specify the degree of affinity that existed between the two because, according to her family, “Audrey was a very reserved girl.” Additionally, Mitchell was scheduled to meet his partner, a Ukrainian citizen, the next day at the hotel. In this sense and according to sources close to the case, the hypothesis that is gaining more strength is that there is an economic motive. Audrey participated in some kind of investment funds and had recently transferred money to an unidentified third person. However, it is not ruled out that the murder occurred due to an issue linked to a possible romantic relationship.
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