Death sentence for murderer and robber on tea hill

(Baonghean.vn) - Defendant Tran Huu Dung was sentenced to the highest sentence of death by the court for three crimes of "murder", "robbery", and "fraudulent appropriation of property".

On October 19, the People's Court of Nghe An province opened the first instance trial of defendant Tran Huu Dung (born 1981), in Dinh Son commune, Anh Son district, who was prosecuted for three crimes: "murder", "robbery", and "fraudulent appropriation of property".

Tran Huu Dung and Nguyen Van Son (born in 1971), living in Dai Son commune, Do Luong district, have known each other for a short time. Son is a buffalo trader and often goes to Anh Son and Con Cuong districts to buy buffalo. Once, Son went to the house of Le Minh Nghia, living in Chi Khe commune, Con Cuong district, who is Dung's co-chairman, to ask to buy buffalo.

Defendant Tran Huu Dung in court. Photo: Phuong Thao

At that time, Dung was helping Nghia shovel sand here, so he knew Son. After that, Dung went to find buffaloes and cows to introduce to Son to get a commission. Because Dung owed someone else a sum of money for business but his business was losing money and he could not pay, Dung thought that Son had a lot of money, so he came up with the idea of ​​killing someone and seizing property to get money to pay off the debt.

At around 4am on May 24, 2017, Dung went to buy cattle with Mr. Son. When he left, Dung brought a knife with a wooden sheath. At around 7am, Mr. Son drove a motorbike with Dung to buy cattle in Cam Son commune, Anh Son district.

When passing through the tea hill area in Tan Tien village, Cam Son commune, seeing that there were no people around, Dung took out a knife and stabbed Son once. After being stabbed, Son let go of the motorbike, the two struggled with each other and then Son ran into the tea hill area. Dung chased after him and continued to stab Son many times. After that, Dung took Son's phone, searched Son's pocket for 3,300,000 VND and took Son's motorbike towards Bai Phu farm to Highway 7.

On the way, Dung remembered that this morning, Mr. Son had paid 21,500,000 VND to buy a buffalo for a customer, so Dung thought he had to take the money. When he arrived at the customer's house, Dung said that Mr. Son had an accident, so he temporarily took back the money, minus 2,500,000 VND as a deposit. When Mr. Son was well, he would come back to pay and catch the buffalo later. The customer thought it was real and gave 19 million VND to Dung.

After that, Dung called his mother and said, "I just killed someone." Seeing his mother silent, Dung rushed home to find her. When he learned that his mother had just taken rat poison, Dung took her to the emergency room. After that, Dung returned to his rented room in Cam Son commune, Anh Son district, and was arrested by the police.

At court, the panel of judges concluded that Tran Huu Dung committed three crimes: "murder", "robbery", and "fraudulent appropriation of property". The court sentenced the defendant to death for "murder", 6 years in prison for "robbery", and 2 years in prison for "fraudulent appropriation of property". In total, Tran Huu Dung was sentenced to death.

Regarding civil liability, defendant Dung must compensate the victim's family 163 million VND and provide child support for Mr. Son's two children until adulthood, each child receiving 1,500,000 VND/month.

Phuong Thao