Pieces of human flesh clogging a toilet have led to the arrest of a woman and her father who allegedly tried to dispose of a body by flushing it one piece at a time.

The Baoshan District Prosecutors' Office believes Jiang Hong, 31, killed the woman in a dispute over money, then enlisted her father's help in covering up the crime.

Jiang and her father, Jiang Haibo, 50, have been charged with manslaughter and assisting in erasing evidence and will stand trial at Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court. A date has not been scheduled yet.

Prosecutors believe that on Jan 2 of this year, Jiang Hong invited the victim, Li Lan, to an apartment on Xingzhi Road, Baoshan District, where she offered her coffee mixed with sedative. After Li fell unconscious, she bound her up and suffocated her by covering her head with a plastic bag. She then put the body into a trunk, the Oriental Morning Post reported.

She texted Li's son the next morning, claiming Li had owed her 300,000 yuan and if he failed to transfer the amount to an account before 1 pm, she would sue Li.

On Jan 4, Jiang Hong told her father that she had killed Li and asked him to dispose of the body. She confessed later that she had lied to her father, saying Li took nude photos of her and she killed her out of rage.

Prosecutors believe the two cut the body into pieces and flushed most of them down the toilet. The pieces got stuck in the sewage pipe, clogging the toilet of the elderly woman living below.

When the property management company came to fix the toilet they discovered it had been clogged by pieces of human flesh.

Jiang Hong has reportedly said she loaned 400,000 yuan to Li Lan for an investment and never got it back.

In November, when she asked for the money again, Li demanded Jiang loan her another 150,000 yuan.

(China Daily May 28, 2009)