Sentence reduced for man who killed his mistress

(Baonghean.vn) -On the morning of December 25, at the People's Court of Cua Lo Town, the Supreme Court's Appellate Court held a public trial of the murder case against Le Canh Thong (born in 1963), residing in Hamlet 1, Lang Son Commune, Anh Son District. Thong's victim was his new wife whom he had lived with for not long.

According to the indictment of the Procuracy, at the end of 2012, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa (born in 1957, residing in Vinh Son commune, Anh Son district) came to the house and lived with Thong as husband and wife. At about 8:00 a.m. on May 6, 2013, after drinking alcohol and having breakfast, Ms. Hoa went to the well to wash the dishes while Thong walked back and forth from inside the house to the yard. To demand alcohol, Thong suddenly ran into the house, took out a hammer and hit Ms. Hoa on the head, causing her to fall right at the well.

Defendant Thong at the trial

After showing Thong where the wine was, Mrs. Hoa went to bed. After finishing the bottle of wine, Thong took a hammer and hit Mrs. Hoa repeatedly on the head, causing her to die on the spot. Knowing that Mrs. Hoa was dead, Thong used the hammer to hit himself on the head and body in an attempt to commit suicide, but was unsuccessful.

For his crime, on September 20, 2013, Le Canh Thong was sentenced to life imprisonment by the People's Court of Nghe An province. In addition, Thong was forced to compensate the victim's relatives for mental damage according to the law in the amount of 105 million VND. After the first instance verdict, Thong appealed to the Supreme People's Court for a lighter sentence. At the same time, the People's Procuracy of Nghe An province found the sentence of the first instance court to be too severe, so it also appealed to partially reduce the defendant's sentence.

Considering that the appeal of the Procuracy and the defendant's request for leniency were well-founded, and that before committing the crime, Thong had a history of mental illness that partially reduced his cognitive ability, the Trial Panel accepted the reduction of the sentence and sentenced Le Canh Thong to 20 years in prison for the above crime.

Dang Thanh Hoa

PC 81 - Nghe An Police