16年前古来校花撕票案 主谋改判坐牢40年
新闻报报看 | 以联邦法院首席大法官敦东姑麦润为首的联邦法院三司，改判古来校花撕票案的主谋坐牢40年和鞭笞，以取代死刑。（主播：颜江瀚、庄文杰）
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00:00 16 years ago, in 2008, there was a social news that shook the country.
00:05 It was the Gu Lai Xiaohua private ticket case.
00:07 A high school student named Lai Yingxing was kidnapped by his brother and was stabbed to death.
00:15 The 38-year-old case chief, Zheng Jinhong, was sentenced to death and failed to appeal.
00:23 Until last year, he applied for a review of his death sentence according to the 2023 Criminal Procedure Act.
00:31 Today, the three courts of the Federal Court of Justice have reached a unanimous decision.
00:35 The three courts of the Federal Court of Justice, led by the Chief Justice, Donggu Maiwen,
00:40 listened to the defense and the defense counsel's testimony.
00:45 After the hearing, they made a rigorous ruling.
00:48 The sentence was changed to 40 years in prison and death penalty for the perpetrator.
00:53 The Chinese newspaper put this title on the cover.
00:55 "Killed Xiaohua 16 years ago, and asked for 40 years of re-trial.
00:59 The death sentence was released."
01:02 Today's ruling includes some details, including
01:05 "40 years of re-trial and 5 times of perpetrator" under the charge of kidnapping,
01:10 "40 years of re-trial and 12 times of perpetrator" under the charge of murder.
01:15 These two 40 years of re-trial and 5 times of perpetrator are executed at the same time.
01:19 In other words, the perpetrator does not have to be sentenced for 40 years, 40 years, and 80 years in total.
01:23 He is sentenced for 40 years in total.
01:26 The sentence is calculated from the date of the perpetrator's arrest,
01:29 which is September 15, 2008.
01:31 In other words, the perpetrator must be in prison until September 2048.
01:36 The court's representative for the perpetrator's lawyer said in the testimony,
01:40 "Burning a person alive and cremating a body are two different situations.
01:46 The judge has confirmed that the victim had died before being cremated.
01:51 The cause of death was strangulation.
01:53 The time of suffering is very short.
01:55 After the criminal was cremated, the body was destroyed,
01:58 and there was no pain.
02:00 Now the death sentence under the charge of kidnapping has been abolished.
02:03 So he suggested that the criminal's death be changed to a life sentence."
02:07 In addition, the lawyer also mentioned that
02:09 "The criminal was still young and immature when the crime occurred.
02:13 He committed the crime on impulse.
02:15 Unless the perpetrator has not changed his mind,
02:19 otherwise he should not be sentenced to death.
02:21 Zheng Jinghong regretted the crime he committed.
02:26 And he apologized to the victim's family.
02:28 At the same time, this case is not the rarest of the rarest cases,
02:32 nor is it the worst case.
02:34 Let's review the case of that year.
02:37 It happened on the night of September 11, 2008.
02:40 The victim, Lai Yingxing, was forced to get into a car outside a Baji market in Gulai.
02:45 At dawn on September 16,
02:46 the police found the burnt body of Lai Yingxing in the woods near the Gulai Palace.
02:52 According to the report,
02:53 the murderer called the victim's parents to blackmail them for 60,000 yuan after killing Lai Yingxing.
02:58 After bargaining,
03:00 the ransom was reduced from 60,000 yuan to 35,500 yuan.
03:04 After that, the family paid the ransom on September 15,
03:07 according to the kidnapper's instructions.
03:09 At the same time,
03:10 the police also launched an arrest,
03:12 and arrested seven men.
03:14 On March 31, 2011, the Kuala Lumpur Police
03:18 sentenced three of the defendants to death.
03:20 The first defendant, Zheng Jinghong, was sentenced to death.
03:23 The second and third defendants were still young and immature when the crime occurred.
03:27 They were only 17 and 16 years old.
03:29 The court originally introduced Article 97 of the Children's Law
03:32 to imprison them until the release of the indictment.
03:36 Zheng Jinghong sued in 2013 and 2015.
03:40 Because he was sentenced to death,
03:41 he sued,
03:42 but was rejected.
03:43 So it was not until the change of law in 2023
03:48 that the 40-year sentence was changed.
03:52 The Chinese newspaper also found out other details of the case.
03:56 The four defendants knew the victim was a familiar person.
04:00 One of the kidnappers also knew the victim's parents.
04:03 After the incident, he pretended to be a good person,
04:05 accompanied the victim's parents,
04:07 and constantly comforted them.
04:09 In fact, his real purpose was to probe the information,
04:12 and find a chance to persuade the two to pay the ransom as soon as possible.
04:16 It was because the defendant kept persuading
04:18 to pay the ransom as soon as possible that he aroused suspicion,
04:21 and told the police the situation,
04:23 so that the police quickly grasped the identity of the kidnappers.
04:26 And after that, the police only found out from the kidnappers
04:28 that they asked the victim's family for ransom
04:31 after the taxi fare disappeared.
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