Wife suspected of hiring hitmen to kill husband
By Li Qian |
December 13, 2012, Thursday
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THE wife of a rich businessman has been arrested on suspicion of hiring hitmen to kill her husband after a long period of domestic abuse.
Police in central China's Hubei Province said the 44-year-old woman, surnamed Yang, had promised two men 1 million yuan (US$160,000) to have the multi-millionaire murdered.
The two men were caught on surveillance cameras entering the husband's art gallery in Yichang City, one of several businesses he owned, on the night of November 25 and leaving just two minutes later.
A gallery employee found the dead businessman, surnamed Wang, the next morning.
Wang, also 44, had had his throat cut, yesterday's Chutian Metropolis Daily reported.
There were no signs of a robbery and none of the paintings in the gallery had been touched. Police launched a murder investigation.
The two men were identified from the surveillance footage and detained on December 2.
According to the police, the two men said they were both several hundred thousand yuan in debt and couldn't resist the lure of Yang's offer.
Their confession led to the arrest of Yang and a woman friend said to have conspired with Yang to arrange the killing.
An initial police investigation is said to have found that Wang had asked his wife for a divorce but she had refused.
She suspected that her husband had a mistress and she was unwilling to have to divide the family assets despite the domestic violence she said she had suffered for a long time.
Police in central China's Hubei Province said the 44-year-old woman, surnamed Yang, had promised two men 1 million yuan (US$160,000) to have the multi-millionaire murdered.
The two men were caught on surveillance cameras entering the husband's art gallery in Yichang City, one of several businesses he owned, on the night of November 25 and leaving just two minutes later.
A gallery employee found the dead businessman, surnamed Wang, the next morning.
Wang, also 44, had had his throat cut, yesterday's Chutian Metropolis Daily reported.
There were no signs of a robbery and none of the paintings in the gallery had been touched. Police launched a murder investigation.
The two men were identified from the surveillance footage and detained on December 2.
According to the police, the two men said they were both several hundred thousand yuan in debt and couldn't resist the lure of Yang's offer.
Their confession led to the arrest of Yang and a woman friend said to have conspired with Yang to arrange the killing.
An initial police investigation is said to have found that Wang had asked his wife for a divorce but she had refused.
She suspected that her husband had a mistress and she was unwilling to have to divide the family assets despite the domestic violence she said she had suffered for a long time.
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