Hire-kill verdict stands
Source: Xinhua |
July 15, 2010, Thursday
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A COURT in northeast China yesterday upheld a death sentence for a billionaire who hired two people to murder a former business partner.
In a statement, the Heilongjiang Provincial Higher People's Court said it rejected the appeal of Wang Wenxiang, founder and chairman of Xinheng Group, his secretary Bai Peng and migrant worker Yu Yi. The court said the verdict at the first-instance trial was based on sufficient evidence.
Wang, 50, was convicted of having contracted the killing to Bai and Yu last December 18. Bai was also sentenced to death and Yu was given a death sentence with a two-year reprieve over charges of murder and theft.
The three were ordered to pay 340,000 yuan (US$50,204) in compensation to the family of victim Zhong Yishi, who ran a construction company that began doing business with Wang in 1999.
Bai and Yu were caught on videotape strangling Zhong to death in an underground car park on May 18 last year. They then drove the corpse to an abandoned brick kiln, where they took 4,000 yuan from the body before burning it.
In a statement, the Heilongjiang Provincial Higher People's Court said it rejected the appeal of Wang Wenxiang, founder and chairman of Xinheng Group, his secretary Bai Peng and migrant worker Yu Yi. The court said the verdict at the first-instance trial was based on sufficient evidence.
Wang, 50, was convicted of having contracted the killing to Bai and Yu last December 18. Bai was also sentenced to death and Yu was given a death sentence with a two-year reprieve over charges of murder and theft.
The three were ordered to pay 340,000 yuan (US$50,204) in compensation to the family of victim Zhong Yishi, who ran a construction company that began doing business with Wang in 1999.
Bai and Yu were caught on videotape strangling Zhong to death in an underground car park on May 18 last year. They then drove the corpse to an abandoned brick kiln, where they took 4,000 yuan from the body before burning it.
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