15th September 2026 – (Hong Kong) Two brothers surnamed Leung have been found dead in a Lei Tung Estate flat on Ap Lei Chau, with police believing the socially withdrawn elder may have died after his younger brother — his sole carer — died weeks earlier.
Security staff at Tung Yip House reported a foul smell from a unit at 2.32pm on 14th September. Officers and firefighters forced entry and found two men already dead. Ambulancemen confirmed both fatalities. The case is listed as discovery of bodies and is being handled by the Aberdeen Police District miscellaneous inquiries team. Early checks found no suicide note and the deaths are not regarded as suspicious pending post-mortems.
The men, aged 55 and 53, had shared the flat since 2003 in a home their parents bought years earlier. Their parents and elder sister lived elsewhere. Sources say the older brother had long cut himself off from people and had not seen even his parents or sister for about a decade, depending entirely on the younger man. Investigators suspect that after the younger brother died suddenly, the elder could not manage alone and also died at home this week.
When found, the older brother was in the toilet wearing only underpants, his body blackened and swollen. The younger lay on his back on a bed in a room; his remains were already decomposing, with insects and exposed bone. Police think the younger man died several weeks earlier.
People familiar with the family say the elder had shown severe social avoidance since childhood but never sought medical help. He rarely spoke, even to relatives, and fled ordinary contact. After leaving school in Form Four he worked about a year as a power-plant technician, then stayed unemployed and lived on his brother’s care. The younger brother was also introverted. After Form Four he worked some years as a goldsmith, then stopped, relying on parents who auto-transferred about HK$17,000 a month for the pair’s living costs.
The younger man’s last family gathering was on the second day of Lunar New Year, 18th February; the elder did not attend. Relatives had not met him in person for more than ten years, and elderly parents could not visit because of limited mobility. After that festival the sister stopped receiving WhatsApp replies from the younger brother. She still called roughly once a month, slipping handwritten notes with cash into the letterbox and leaving when nobody answered the door. Utilities were paid from the father’s account; July and August electricity use looked normal.
A neighbour said the pair were not well known on the floor, seldom greeted others, and usually went out alone rather than together despite living there more than 20 years. They appeared able to walk about and seemed jobless from their coming-and-going hours. The neighbour heard no rows and no smell from the flat until news of the deaths broke.