‘Thief’ had never been at crime scene
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A MAN wrongly convicted of theft in a province he had never visited is seeking compensation of almost 250,000 yuan (US$40,275).
Fang Junjin, 41, a security guard at a residential complex in his hometown in Yunxiao County in southeast China’s Fujian Province, was questioned by local police in April last year about a break-in in Yongxiu County in east China’s Jiangxi Province in 2009.
Police had identified fingerprints on a cigarette pack left at the scene as belonging to Fang, yesterday’s Legal Weekly reported.
But Fang insisted he had never left Fujian and had never heard of Yongxiu. At the time of the break-in he was at home taking care of his mother who was recovering from stomach surgery.
However, a court in Yongxiu sentenced him to 13 months in prison.
Fingerprints on the cigarette pack were the only evidence, Fang’s lawyer Lin Zhiqiang said, and only proved Fang had touched it rather than being at the crime scene.
He said Fang had worked in a fake cigarette factory in Yunxiao and might have left his fingerprints on a pack at that time.
On February 17, Yongxiu prosecutors agreed that the case should be dropped due to a lack of evidence. Fang was freed earlier this month, the paper reported. Fang said he was seeking an apology and state compensation of 247,120 yuan.
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