2 get death for mine-shaft plot
By Jane Chen |
May 28, 2010, Friday
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TWO people in southwest China have been given suspended death sentences for pushing a mentally ill man into a coal mine shaft and then posing as his relatives to get compensation for his death. Two others received 15 years in prison.
Honghe Prefecture Intermediate People's Court in Yunnan Province yesterday sentenced Yang Shuncai and Yu Qigang to death with a reprieve and Zhang Yongxian and Yu Qicai to 15 years in jail, yesterday's Yunnan Information newspaper reported.
The four persuaded mentally retarded Cai Qianwen to work at a mine last October, the court heard.
On November 15, they led Cai to work in a deserted shaft. Yang pushed Cai down a well, causing his death, while Yu Qigang stood guard outside.
Zhang and Yu Qicai posed as Cai's family and visited mine owner Liu Xiaowai the next day to ask for compensation of nearly 300,000 yuan (US$43,930). Liu called police and the four were soon caught.
The court also ordered the four to compensate Cai's family 76,075 yuan.
The four said they wouldn't appeal the verdict.
Police in the neighboring province of Sichuan announced in late December they had arrested nine people suspected of trafficking mentally ill people to be murdered in mines in nine other provinces across China in an effort to blackmail mine owners into paying compensation.
The murders took place over several years.
Honghe Prefecture Intermediate People's Court in Yunnan Province yesterday sentenced Yang Shuncai and Yu Qigang to death with a reprieve and Zhang Yongxian and Yu Qicai to 15 years in jail, yesterday's Yunnan Information newspaper reported.
The four persuaded mentally retarded Cai Qianwen to work at a mine last October, the court heard.
On November 15, they led Cai to work in a deserted shaft. Yang pushed Cai down a well, causing his death, while Yu Qigang stood guard outside.
Zhang and Yu Qicai posed as Cai's family and visited mine owner Liu Xiaowai the next day to ask for compensation of nearly 300,000 yuan (US$43,930). Liu called police and the four were soon caught.
The court also ordered the four to compensate Cai's family 76,075 yuan.
The four said they wouldn't appeal the verdict.
Police in the neighboring province of Sichuan announced in late December they had arrested nine people suspected of trafficking mentally ill people to be murdered in mines in nine other provinces across China in an effort to blackmail mine owners into paying compensation.
The murders took place over several years.
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