Chinese farmer in court for killing ‘rapist who repeatedly attacked his wife'
PUBLISHED : Monday, 10 August, 2015, 2:02pm
UPDATED : Monday, 10 August, 2015, 2:02pm
Naomi Ng
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The husband and wife, pictured, had complained repeatedly about alleged sexual assaults carried out by the man killed, according to the report. Photo: Beijing Times
A farmer from northern China has appeared in court charged with murdering a man who had allegedly repeatedly raped his wife, according to a newspaper report.
The man, 35, from Laiyuan county in Hebei province admitted attacking the alleged rapist with a sickle and knife, the Beijing Times reported. He bled to death.
The farmer and his wife had reported the alleged sex attacks since August last year, saying she had been raped three times, the article said.
The public security bureau briefly detained the suspect in September and sent a formal request to the county’s prosecutor office for an arrest warrant, but it denied receiving any applications, the report said.
“I was furious. I had tried to repress these feelings for a long time,” the farmer was quoted as telling the court in Baoding.
The farmer and his wife also tried to file a complaint about the police’s alleged dereliction of duty to the authorities in Beijing, but were put in detention for 10 days in January for “disrupting social order”.
The court has yet to announce it sentence in the case.
The farmer's lawyers have asked for a lenient jail sentence of three to 10 years, the report said.
The family of the man killed is demanding the death sentence and is suing for damages of 5 million yuan (HK$6.2 million).
