Death verdict for murder of mistress
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August 4, 2010, Wednesday
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A FORMER official who admitted killing his mistress was sentenced to death in east China's Zhejiang Province yesterday.
Xie Zaixing, 48, former chief of the Communist Party of China Committee in Ouhai District, Wenzhou City, was convicted of suffocating Shao Songqiao, a woman with whom he had a nine-year extramarital relationship, after an argument at Shao's home in Hangzhou on November 15, 2009.
Xie was arrested on April 5 and his case was referred to the city's procuratorate a month later. He was removed from his post before he was arrested and charged with murder.
Prosecutors said Xie and Shao began their relationship in 2000 when Xie was working in Sanmen County government and Shao was deputy secretary of the local Youth League.
They later moved to Hangzhou in 2006, when Shao changed her former name, Shao Huiling, to Shao Songqiao.
Xie had pleaded for leniency, saying he had covered Shao's mouth to stop her from screaming and had not intentionally killed her.
The sentence was handed down at the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province.
It is not immediately known whether Xie will appeal to a higher court.
Xie Zaixing, 48, former chief of the Communist Party of China Committee in Ouhai District, Wenzhou City, was convicted of suffocating Shao Songqiao, a woman with whom he had a nine-year extramarital relationship, after an argument at Shao's home in Hangzhou on November 15, 2009.
Xie was arrested on April 5 and his case was referred to the city's procuratorate a month later. He was removed from his post before he was arrested and charged with murder.
Prosecutors said Xie and Shao began their relationship in 2000 when Xie was working in Sanmen County government and Shao was deputy secretary of the local Youth League.
They later moved to Hangzhou in 2006, when Shao changed her former name, Shao Huiling, to Shao Songqiao.
Xie had pleaded for leniency, saying he had covered Shao's mouth to stop her from screaming and had not intentionally killed her.
The sentence was handed down at the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province.
It is not immediately known whether Xie will appeal to a higher court.
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