SINGAPORE, Feb. 20 -- Prosecutors in Spain are pushing for a murder charge against Mitchell Ong, a Singaporean man accused of killing 39-year-old Audrey Fang, whose body was found with 30 stab wounds in April 2024.

Ong, who was arrested six days later, was last seen on CCTV picking up Fang from her hotel in a car believed to be his, according to a report published in Channel News Asia today.

Spanish prosecutors and private lawyers told the court on February 20 that there was "sufficient evidence of criminality" to proceed with a murder trial.

The defence, however, sought to dismiss the case and requested an independent forensic review of Ong's phone.

Fang had been travelling alone in Spain when her body was discovered near a lorry parki...