China: According to a source from the South China Morning Post on December 2, 2024 reported the murder of China, a Chinese man was sentenced to death after pushing his wife off the ferry. Fall into the sea and try to claim his wife’s life insurance premiums to pay off his debts and to get sex.
According to Chinese state television CCTV on November 21, 2024, a 47-year-old man named Tha Li was initially convicted of premeditated murder by the Liaoning Provincial People’s Court. Liaoning) in December last year. However, it is unclear whether the trial has been carried out.
The incident happened on May 5, 2021, while traveling by ferry from Dalian, northeastern Liaoning Province, to Yantai, Shandong Province in eastern Shandong Province. Suddenly, Lee’s wife fell off the ferry into the sea. About 45 minutes later, rescuers found the body of the woman, while the husband, when he heard that his wife was dead, cried and screamed in shock.
Despite claims by the husband that the accident was accidental, police are increasingly suspicious as the location of the crash was too dark to separate from the ferry surveillance system with cameras. 200 tablets. Forensic experts also found bruises on the wife’s face. Lee also wanted to get his wife’s death certificate from the police as soon as possible, but local officials required a three-day cremation.
Police summoned Li to Dalian, promising to provide a death certificate, while police sent officers to Shanghai, where Li lives, to investigate. The results show that Li opened a restaurant in Shanghai, but often owed money to the salaries of his staff and business partners.
Police also found that Lee, an ex-groom, had married his wife of 46 years in October 2020, two months, six months before the woman died. The victim has been working at her husband’s restaurant since 2016. Police found that restaurant staff were unaware of the couple’s marriage, and neighbors noticed that the couple did not appear to be in close contact. During the investigation, police also found that Lee had a 19-year-old girlfriend.
Lee went to a sex shop just half a month after his wife’s death in a hotel room set up by police, at which point Lee was arrested by police. . Police found that Li owed more than 1 million yuan ($ 140,000) by buying four life insurance policies for his wife, two months after the marriage, and named himself the beneficiary. Only one. If his wife dies in an accident, the combined compensation from those insurance policies can total up to $ 1.6 million.
Lee was arrested but continued to plead not guilty. Police sought the help of forensic experts to examine the video from security cameras located far from the scene. Experts determine how the victim fell, indicating that she was pushed rather than accidentally dropped. In the video, another man was identified as wearing a black shirt while Lee was wearing a black suit that day.
Lee was sentenced to death for murder in the first trial in July 2022, and the Supreme Court upheld the verdict after an appeal. Source: South China Morning Post
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