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Court upholds death sentence for cop fatally shooting pregnant woman
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A Chinese court today upheld the death sentence for a former police officer who shot and killed a pregnant woman and injured her husband while drunk last October.
In the second trial of the case, the Higher People's Court of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region today rejected the defendant's appeal and upheld the previous death verdict.
Hu Ping, the defendant, was previously also ordered to pay the victim’s family 73,324 yuan (US$12,089) while given a death sentence by the Guigang Intermediate People’s Court in southern Guangxi.
Wu Ying, who was five-months pregnant, and her husband Cai Shiyong were tending to their rice-noodle store on October 28 when Hu, drunk and shirtless, entered and demanded milk tea.
After Wu responded that the store did not serve milk tea, the officer opened fire, wounding Cai in the shoulder and killing Wu and her unborn child.
When the case came to trial on February 13, prosecutors urged the court to impose a heavy sentence in view of Hu’s position as an officer of the law in Pingnan County. Hu’s lawyers called for leniency in light of the fact that he had handed himself in to police.
Hu argued in court that he shot the couple because Cai had tried to steal his gun. But several witnesses told the court Hu shot the couple first.
A medical examination determined that Hu was drunk at the time of the incident, but not so intoxicated as to be unaware of his actions. He was fully responsible for what he did, the medical report said.
Hu pled guilty and apologized to Wu’s relatives during the last session of the trial. But the family said it would never forgive him.
Wu’s parents had filed a compensation claim for more than 1.23 million yuan (US$203,000) to cover medical bills, funeral expenses and mental suffering.
The family has already received 700,000 yuan from the local government.
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