Pianist who microwaved his parents gets life

24 March 2015 - 10:25 By ©The Daily Telegraph

A 31-year-old pianist has been jailed for life in Hong Kong for murdering, dismembering, salting and then microwaving his parents. Henry Chau was sentenced yesterday for the March 2013 murders.He reportedly spent six months plotting the killings and in the month leading up to them listened repeatedly to Alexander Scriabin's frantic, semiquaver-packed composition Vers La Flamme."People might wonder why you did this. That there is no obvious answer is what makes you so dangerous," the judge, Michael Stuart-Moore, told Chau during sentencing."You fail in everything but the piano," he said, according to the South China Morning Post. "You always blame your faults on others . your parents became the victims of your blame."Two weeks after the killings police found the heads of his parents stored in two fridges at a flat belonging to one of his friends in Kowloon."The heads were placed neatly on towels with their eyes not fully closed," Mak Chun-hung, the forensic officer who made the discovery, told the court.Air freshener had been sprayed throughout the flat to mask the stench and "salted" body parts were found in plastic boxes. On a shopping list were "knives, saw blades, bleach, refrigerators and microwave ovens".Chau reportedly "blamed his mother for forcing him to study the piano". He "hated his father because he refused to turn down the TV volume when he was trying hard to study in his schooldays".Chau reportedly told psychiatrists that he wanted to achieve something important before reaching 30.The judge told him he was a "narcissist" preoccupied with fantasies of success...

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