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Police reopen murder probe
By Wang Xiang |
May 5, 2010, Wednesday
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POLICE in Henan have relaunched a murder investigation in Weishi County after an online post accused officers of framing a mentally ill villager.
Weishi County police denied the accusation but said they did arrest Liu Weizhong, a county mental patient, on suspicion of killing a homeless man, Wang Baoguo, and throwing his body in the river in 2009.
They released Liu after he spent more than 20 days in custody. The police later declared the murder case solved but that Liu had been set free because he was judged to be insane.
Liu, 46, had had mental problems since he was a child and this was well known in the village, his family said.
The police officer who took Liu away is alleged to have told his family he would be sent to a nursing home for treatment. But Zhang Haiya, assistant to the Weishi police chief, said Liu had turned himself in on December 25 last year.
The online post said Weishi police had been urged to clear up all its murder cases in 2009 within a month. Police started to frame innocent people, especially those with mental problems who could not be punished under the law, it said.
Kaifeng City police are investigating the Weishi killing case but its spokesman, Liu Lei, said there was no result yet. According to the Website of the Hunan provincial government, it was the Kaifeng police authority which required murder cases to be cleared up within a certain time limit.
Weishi County police denied the accusation but said they did arrest Liu Weizhong, a county mental patient, on suspicion of killing a homeless man, Wang Baoguo, and throwing his body in the river in 2009.
They released Liu after he spent more than 20 days in custody. The police later declared the murder case solved but that Liu had been set free because he was judged to be insane.
Liu, 46, had had mental problems since he was a child and this was well known in the village, his family said.
The police officer who took Liu away is alleged to have told his family he would be sent to a nursing home for treatment. But Zhang Haiya, assistant to the Weishi police chief, said Liu had turned himself in on December 25 last year.
The online post said Weishi police had been urged to clear up all its murder cases in 2009 within a month. Police started to frame innocent people, especially those with mental problems who could not be punished under the law, it said.
Kaifeng City police are investigating the Weishi killing case but its spokesman, Liu Lei, said there was no result yet. According to the Website of the Hunan provincial government, it was the Kaifeng police authority which required murder cases to be cleared up within a certain time limit.
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