Murder just because of wearing a hat to a funeral

Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Court opened a trial to bring defendant Nguyen Thanh Hao (born 1982) to trial for murder.

The court also tried defendants Nguyen Thanh Hon (born 1984), Nguyen Minh Sy (born 1997) and Tran Tan Phu (born 1992) for disturbing public order.

However, after the interrogation, the court decided to return the file at the request of the Procuracy to investigate and clarify whether there were any accomplices in this case, along with a number of other issues that could not be supplemented at the trial.

The defendants in court.

According to records, at about 11:00 a.m. on April 1, 2017, Pham Hoang Anh (victim) was invited to attenddeath anniversaryat Mr. Nguyen Thanh Dong's house.

Here, seeing Anh wearing a hat, Nguyen Thanh Son (Mr. Dong's son) told Anh to take off his hat to be polite and took off the hat Anh was wearing, leading to loud arguments and fights between Anh and some of Son's brothers...

Some people tried to stop Anh from leaving Mr. Dong's house. He got in his car and left, threatening to come back and kill him.

Then, Son, Hao, Hon, Sy… group went to Son's house to continue drinking.

Before going to Son's house, Sy told Hon that Anh threatened to come back and slash him, so Hon and Sy took two machetes and an iron pipe from Mr. Dong's house and brought them to Son's yard.

At about 5:00 p.m., Anh drove a motorbike carrying Tran Tan Phu (Anh's nephew) carrying two machetes to Son's house.

Here the two sides fought. As a result, Anh was beaten to death.