A British businessman was charged with murder on Thursday after an Indonesian domestic helper was found dead at a waterfall in southern Hong Kong.

The 34-year-old British citizen, who holds a Hong Kong identity card, was arrested with his wife at the West Kowloon High Speed ​​Rail when they returned to the city on Tuesday.

The case will be mentioned in the East Court on Friday morning, a police spokesman said.

The force said the man went to Waterfall Bay Park near Wah Fu Estate in Pok Fu Lam with the victim at around 11pm on Sunday before leaving alone in a taxi.

The man’s wife, a 36-year-old local woman, was arrested on suspicion of assisting a criminal. She has been released on bail and is due to report to police at the end of next month.