According to a 'Mystery Deepens' article in the Post, the British Consulate will not formally state that a death has occurred. Presumably they have not been able to identify - or perhaps even see - the body, let alone bring it back to HK.
It certainly looks as if the Public Security Bureau has something to hide, and is trying to make up a story. What they're hiding may be nothing worse than incompetence. Let's hope.
As he'd been teaching so long, there must be - besides friends and colleagues - thousands of students who remember him.
According to Apple Daily Bower had 2 to 3 gfs in China. One of those gf (not the mother of the kid) admitted to the police she committed the murder with two other men.
RTHK has report ".............Media reports, citing unnamed public security sources, reported Xu (girlfriend) had turned herself in to police in Dongguan on April 7, where she had told officers she had murdered and then dismembered Bower with the help of two men.
Shenzhen girlfriend arrested over teacher's death - RTHK