Hospital attacker who killed nurse sentenced to life imprisonment
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A MAN has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a fatal assault at a hospital in east China’s Anhui Province last November.
Cai Chunfeng, 42, was found guilty of intentional homicide at Hefei Intermediate People’s Court yesterday.
Cai attacked medical staff with a knife at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, killing one nurse and injuring four people.
Cai, who was unemployed, was admitted to the hospital on November 6, 2012 after he was found to have kidney stones. He had been due to have surgery three days later but he became worried and left hospital three days later.
He felt uncomfortable and blamed pre-operation tests though he was told by a community hospital that he was just allergic to medicine.
“I believe that nurses must have injected something bad to my body,” Cai said at his trial on November 19, and he decided to take revenge.
He bought a knife at a local supermarket and went to the hospital’s urinary department, police said.
There, he attacked five medical professionals. Head nurse Dai Guangqiong collapsed at the scene after being stabbed twice in the neck. She died after emergency treatment. The four others suffered only slight injuries, the Legal Evening News reported.
“The hospital director refused to meet me when I tried to lodge complaints. I had no other means and thought of attacking people,” Cai told the court. He denied murder, saying he “just meant to hurt them.”
Experts from the Shanghai Mental Health Center told the court that Cai was suffering from a paranoid-type mental disorder and had diminished criminal responsibility at the time of the attack.
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