Chinese man and mistress ‘planned wife’s murder for a year’, court hears in case over woman’s death in road collision
Lovers previously tried to kill the woman with poison but failed, so the man lured her out for his mistress to run her over, prosecutors say
It was a murder a year in the making. A Chinese man and his mistress had finally succeeded in killing the man’s wife after several failed attempts.
That was what a court in eastern China’s Anhui province heard on Wednesday, according to Anhui Business Daily.
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The man, identified only by his surname Wu, and his mistress, Li, are charged with killing Wu’s wife, Yin.
Wu pleaded guilty. The paper did not say if Li also pleaded guilty.
Yin was killed after the man allegedly directed his mistress to run her over in a rented car.
Yin was on an electric bicycle with their seven-year-old daughter riding pillion when she was run over, the report said.