Ex-cop enters guilty plea in noodle vendor murder case
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THE former police officer on trial for the murder of a pregnant noodle stallholder in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region yesterday pled guilty, CCTV reported.
Hu Ping, 34, ex-deputy police chief of Pingnan County, also apologized in court to the relatives of Wu Ying, the woman he shot dead in October last year for failing to serve him milk tea. The family said it would never forgive him, the report said.
Wu’s five-month-old unborn baby also died as a result of the shooting.
Prosecutors urged the court to deliver a heavy sentence in view of Hu’s position as an officer of the law. The defendant’s lawyers appealed for leniency in light of the fact that Hu had handed himself into police.
If convicted, Hu could be given the death penalty or a prison term of up to life.
The court has yet to announce its verdict.
Prosecutors said the murder occurred on the evening of October 28, after Hu had been eating dinner and drinking with colleagues in Pingnan, outside the restaurant, Hu became rowdy and fired his pistol into the air, they said.
He then went to the noodle stall run by Wu and her husband Cai Shiyong and ordered milk tea.
When Wu said she didn’t sell milk tea, Hu again fired his pistol, first into the ceiling of the stall, then once at Cai and twice at Wu. Cai was hit in the shoulder, while Wu was struck in the head and hand, China News Service reported.
The two were taken to hospital where Wu and her unborn child later died. Cai survived after receiving treatment.
According to a forensic medical examination, Hu was drunk at the time of the shootings, but not so intoxicated as to be unaware of his actions. He was fully responsible for what he did, it said.
Wu’s parents have filed a compensation claim for more than 1.23 million yuan (US$202,850) to cover medical bills, funeral expenses and mental suffering, China News Service reported.
The family has already received 700,000 yuan from the local government. Huang Xingrong, Pingnan Party chief, said the authorities did not want the family to wait for a court settlement to receive the compensation payment.
Hu will be asked to repay the money, he said.
The Central Political and Judiciary Commission said on Tuesday Hu had been fired from the police and Party. Zhou Xian, former head of Pingnan police, and Li Jian, an ex-political commissar for the police, who were with Hu at the time, were also removed from their Party and government posts.
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