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Death sentence for killer of toddler in parking row
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A MAN who killed a two-year-old girl in an argument with her mother over a parking space was sentenced to death in Beijing yesterday.
The Beijing No.1 Intermediate People’s Court convicted Han Lei, 39, of intentional homicide.
Han’s lawyer said he would appeal against the sentence, Legal Evening News reported.
The child’s family did not appear in court. They had earlier asked for compensation of 2.73 million yuan (US$446,082), which Han said he would pay.
However, their lawyer withdrew the claim before the verdict was announced.
Han was riding in a car driven by his friend Li Ming when they got into an argument with the girl’s mother near a bus station in Daxing District on July 23.
When the mother refused to make room so that they could park their car as she was tending her child, Han got out and attacked the woman.
He then pulled the toddler from her stroller, raised her above his head and threw the child to the ground.
The girl died from head injuries two days later.
After the attack, Li drove Han back to where he was staying. Han was caught on July 24 and Li handed himself in to police on July 25.
At the trial earlier this month, Han insisted that he didn’t realize that it was a child in the stroller and never intended to hurt her.
He said he was willing to pay compensation for the death.
The court said that although Han had been drinking alcohol he wasn’t drunk and dismissed his claims that he had not known about the child.
As an adult of sound mind, Han had failed to properly handle a dispute, instead venting his anger on a child, murdering her, the court ruled.
Records showed Han was jailed for life in October 1996 for larceny. He had his sentence commuted and was released by the end of last year.
Li received a two-year jail term for harboring Han. The court heard that Li was on bail when he committed crimes.
With his other offenses taken into account, Li was jailed for a total of five years.
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