9X kills lover, steals car after sex

Hearing his girlfriend say she had a new boyfriend, Thanh angrily strangled the 25-year-old victim to death and hid her body in a hole near Song Than Industrial Park (Binh Duong).

On November 14, the High People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City opened an appeal trial of defendant Nguyen Hoai Thanh (22 years old, from Kien Giang) for the crimes of Murder and Robbery.

According to the first instance verdict, on the evening of January 24, Thanh made an appointment to meet his lover, Ms. Ha (25 years old, from Thanh Hoa), at an empty lot near Song Than Industrial Park, Thu Dau Mot City (Binh Duong) to have sex.

After being intimate, hearing Ha say she had someone else, Thanh got angry and argued. He strangled his girlfriend, who was 3 years older, to death and hid the body in a nearby hole, using broken tree branches to cover it up.

Nguyen Hoai Thanh at the appeal hearing. Photo: Thang Long.

After committing the crime, the young man from Kien Giang took Ms. Ha’s Exciter motorbike, phone, bracelet and two rings, worth more than 40 million VND, and fled back to his hometown. During the investigation, the police quickly arrested the perpetrator.

At the first instance trial, Thanh was sentenced to life in prison for two crimes: Murder and Robbery. He appealed for a reduced sentence.

In the appeal hearing, the panel of judges rejected Thanh's appeal for a reduced sentence and increased the sentence to death.

* Victim's name has been changed.

According to Zing