WHAT HAPPENED
Ms Fang had been travelling alone in Spain when her physique was discovered close to a parking space for lorries within the city of Abanilla on Apr 10, 2024.
A preliminary post-mortem report discovered that knife wounds and head trauma have been the reason for her dying, it was reported.
Ong, who was arrested six days after Ms Fang’s physique was discovered, has been the only suspect in her homicide.
Closed-circuit tv cameras on the resort the place he was staying captured him leaving at round 5.45pm on Apr 9, 2024, wearing a hoodie and black pants.
Native information web site La Verdad beforehand cited prosecutors saying that Ong drove Ms Fang to a parking zone close to a restaurant in Abanilla at round 11pm on Apr 9, earlier than the automotive left at 11.45pm.
In line with the report, the prosecutors consider Ms Fang was not within the automotive by the point it left the carpark.
Ong returned to the resort at round 2am on Apr 10, sporting denims and a blue sweater.
Spanish police have confirmed that each Ms Fang’s and Ong’s cellphones have been collectively in Abanilla on the day she died, native newspaper Levante El Mercantil Valenciano beforehand reported.
In line with the decide overseeing the case, it’s inferred “unquestionably” that each Singaporeans have been in the identical space and in the identical time slot on the day the crime was dedicated, based mostly on information offered by cell phone operators in Abanilla.
Ong and Ms Fang had identified one another for greater than 10 years and he was made a beneficiary of her Central Provident Fund (CPF) – a compulsory social safety financial savings scheme – about six months earlier than her dying.
Across the time Ms Fang nominated Ong as her beneficiary, virtually S$200,000 (US$148,000) was deposited into her CPF account.
Mr Manuel Martinez, the lawyer representing Ms Fang’s household, stated beforehand that the 39-year-old’s CPF account had greater than €430,000 (US$462,000).
In February, La Verdard reported that prosecutors have been searching for a homicide cost in opposition to Ong, with the non-public prosecution stating there was “enough proof of criminality” to deliver him to trial.
Nevertheless, the defence requested that the case be dismissed and referred to as for brand new proceedings, together with an unbiased skilled evaluation of Ong’s cellphone and his personal testimony.
Ong’s lawyer argued that it was needed to hold out varied assessments within the case, and that Ong has misplaced contact together with his household.
