Sentenced to 15 years in prison for pouring gasoline on his wife and setting her on fire out of jealousy
Holding his wife's phone and seeing that the phone number was an unknown number, suspecting it was his wife's lover, Nguyen Minh Ut bought gasoline and planned to burn his wife and then commit suicide.
On March 6, the People's Court of Ca Mau province opened a first-instance trial and sentenced defendant Nguyen Minh Ut (born 1988) to 15 years in prison for the crime of "Murder".
According to the indictment of the People's Procuracy of Ca Mau province, on the afternoon of July 19, 2017, after going out drinking and returning to his rented room in Hamlet 7, Ward 8 (Ca Mau City), Nguyen Minh Ut (residing in Ho Thi Ky commune, Thoi Binh district, Ca Mau province)took out his wife's phone, Ly Thi BT (also living in Ho Thi Ky commune) to check. Seeing a strange number, Ut asked who it was from and BT replied that it was a friend calling.
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| Defendant Nguyen Minh Ut in court. |
Suspecting that it was his wife's lover's phone number, the two had an argument. In a fit of jealousy, Ut had the idea of killing BT and then committing suicide, so he bought 20,000 VND worth of gasoline, poured it on his wife and set her on fire.
Neighbors discovered the incident and came to put out the fire and took Ms. BT to the emergency room. The victim was lucky to escape death and was determined by Cho Ray Hospital (HCMC) to have an injury rate of 86%.
The jury found that the defendant Ut's behavior was dangerous to society.However, the defendant committed the crime for the first time and confessed honestly, so the court sentenced him to 15 years in prison and ordered him to compensate Ms. BT's family a total of more than 380 million VND.
