Pour wine into a cup, whoever doesn't finish it will be...shot.

Seeing 9 boys herding buffaloes into the shack asking for water to drink, Phieu poured a bottle of wine into a cup and then brought out a loaded gun and threatened, "Whoever doesn't finish drinking, I'll shoot."

The People's Court of Yen Bai province recently opened a first-instance criminal trial, a mobile trial of the murder case against defendant Lo Van Phieu (born in 1964, residing in Tu Le commune, Van Chan district, Yen Bai province.

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According to the prosecution file, on June 12, 2016, Hoang Van Thao (born 2000), Hoang Van Thich (born 2003), Sam Muu Hoang (born 2004), Hoang Van Loi (born 2002), Hoang Thai Tam (born 2004), Hoang Van Tuong (born 2000), Lo Van Tam (born 2004), Hoang Van Bao (born 2004) and Sam Van Sui (born 2003), all residing in Na Long village, Tu Le commune, Van Chan district, Yen Bai province, went to herd buffaloes and went to Lo Van Phieu's hut to play and ask for water to drink.

Here, Phieu took a bottle of wine, poured it into cups, and forced the children to drink it all one by one. Phieu also took out a loaded flintlock gun and threatened, "If anyone doesn't drink, I'll shoot."

Out of fear, the children drank all of it one by one, then Hoang Van Thao drank only a little and went outside. Seeing that, Phieu pointed the gun at Thao from a distance of 1 meter and pulled the trigger.

Thao was shot in the chest and seriously injured in the left arm and had to be taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. Fortunately, her life was not in danger.

At the trial, considering that the defendant Phieu’s actions were particularly serious, of a hooligan nature, dangerous to society, and causing outrage in local public opinion, the People’s Procuracy’s prosecution of the defendant for murder was legally justified. Based on the above analysis, and on the basis of the proposed sentence by the People’s Procuracy, the People’s Court of Yen Bai province sentenced the defendant Lo Van Phieu to 9 years in prison.

According to Justice