Security guard set fire to wood processing factory because of...low salary!
(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of April 26, Tan Ky District People's Court tried the criminal case against Lo Van Nhuom (born in 1974, residing in Dong Kho Dong Tho hamlet, Nghia Dung commune, Tan Ky district) for the crime of property destruction.
Lo Van Nhuom was hired by Mr. Dang Van Nho - a neighbor - to work as a security guard at a wood processing factory in Dong Kho Dong Tho hamlet, Nghia Dung commune.
Recently, due to frustration over low wages, at around 5:00 p.m. on February 8, 2022, Nhuom prepared a machete and a gas lighter, then took a motorbike from home to the wood peeling factory where he worked as a security guard to destroy Mr. Nho's property. |
| Lo Van Nhuom. Photo: Phuong Hao |
When arriving at Mr. Nho's workshop, Nhuom parked his motorbike outside the workshop, took the machete and put it behind the motorbike in his hand and went inside. At this time, there was no one in the workshop. Nhuom turned on the light switch in the workshop, then went to where the two wood cutting machines were placed, used the machete and cut a belt of the two-end wood cutting machine, then cut two belts of the one-end wood cutting machine next to it.
After cutting the three belts, Nhuom went to the security room to sit for a while, then went out to the finished product storage area (finished wooden boards are packed in crates) next to the security house, took the available damaged wooden boards and tied them into a torch, went into the middle of the finished product warehouse, took a lighter and lit the torch to ignite the finished wood in the warehouse. When the fire had burned to the finished wooden boards, Nhuom threw the lighter into the burning fire, then rode his motorbike home.
At about 4:00 p.m. on February 9, 2022, realizing that his behavior was a violation of the law, Lo Van Nhuom went to the Investigation Police Agency of Tan Ky District Police to surrender. The total value of the property that Lo Van Nhuom destroyed at Mr. Dang Van Nho's peeled wood workshop was 30,590,000 VND. Nhuom compensated Mr. Nho 10 million VND. At court, Mr. Nho also asked the panel of judges to reduce Nhuom's sentence. At the end of the trial, the panel of judges sentenced Lo Van Nhuom to 9 months in prison, suspended, and 18 months of probation.
