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Cop-accusing robber convicted

A man who accused a police officer of torturing him to extort confession was convicted of robbery a second time and sentenced to 13 years behind bars after the case was retried in a north China city.

The Beishi District People's Court in the city of Baoding, Hebei Province, found Wang Zhao robbed a woman in her apartment of 13,000 yuan (US$2,036), a cellphone and jewelry in Baoding in August 2006, China News Service reported yesterday.

However, the suspect offered evidence to prove he was in another city hundreds of miles away when the robbery occurred and claimed he was forced to sign a confession by a police bureau chief.

The jail term handed to Wang was the same as the one given him in December 2007, when the case was heard for the first time.

The Higher People's Court of Hebei Province revoked the original judgment and remanded the case to Beishi District People's Court last November after errors have been found in the evidence.

Wang claimed he was framed and beaten up by Li Gang, who made headlines in national media after his son caused widespread outrage when he tried to exploit his father's rank after causing a fatal traffic accident last October.

After Li's son was sentenced to six years, the police chief father was accused in the new scandal in which Wang alleged he tortured him to get his confession.

The procurator admitted 36 evidenciary mistakes were made in the original court case but that didn't mean Wang was innocent.

Wang's mother said the family would appeal the ruling, according to a report in the Oriental Morning Post.

The case aroused controversy when Wang claimed he was in a car repair shop in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, 125 kilometers from Baoding, on the day of the break-in. Several people testified he was in Shijiazhuang.

However, police detained him because they found his fingerprint at the crime scene and discovered that Wang made phone calls in the neighborhood around the time the case happened.




 

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