TCM doctor on trial for murder
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A CHINESE businessman went on trial in Britain yesterday accused of stabbing a family of four to death over a business relationship that turned sour.
Du Anxiang, 55, denies murdering university lecturer Jifeng Jeff Ding, his wife Ge Helen Chui, and their two daughters, 18-year-old Xing Nancy and Alice, 12.
Prosecutors say Du, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, armed himself with a kitchen knife before “savagely” attacking Ding and his wife at their home in Northamptonshire, central England, in April 2011.
“Not content with killing them, the mother and father, in the kitchen of their own home, he then went upstairs to find their two daughters,” prosecution lawyer William Harbage told the jury at Northampton Crown Court.
“He cold-bloodedly stabbed them to death as well.”
Relatives of the Dings, who had traveled from China for the trial, listened as Harbage described how Du went into business with the couple in 1999, but had since become involved in a long-running legal dispute.
Jurors were told he was facing thousands of pounds in legal costs.
“It was obvious to him that he had lost, he faced ruin,” Harbage said. “And so he resorted to violence, to murder, in order to avenge himself of the people who had caused him such grief.”
He had planned and committed the murders with “ruthless efficiency,” Harbage said, adding that closed circuit footage and fingerprints in bloodstains placed him at the scene.
Harbage said that having “massacred” the family, he stole their car and went looking for another man involved in the legal battle, but could not find him.
Du fled to Morocco after the killings and was extradited to Britain earlier this year, the court heard.
Ding was a science lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, while his wife was a businesswoman and translator. The couple moved to Britain around 20 years ago.
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