On April 30, The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) learned from Lao Rongzhi's defense lawyer Wu Danhong that yesterday
Received a phone call from the Higher People's Court of Jiangxi Province that "the trial of Lao Rongzhi's intentional homicide, robbery, and kidnapping case" was ruled to "suspend the trial" due to irresistible reasons.
The Paper previously reported that Lao Rongzhi, born in 1974, was a former primary school teacher of Jiujiang Petrochemical Company.
From 1996 to 1999, Lao Rongzhi followed his then boyfriend Faziying to commit 4 kidnapping, robbery and murder cases in Nanchang, Wenzhou, Changzhou and Hefei.
In 1999, Faziying was arrested in Hefei and sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Hefei City, Anhui Province on November 18, 1999.
After fleeing for nearly 20 years, Lao Rongzhi was arrested in Xiamen, Fujian in December 2019. On December 17 of the same year, the People's Procuratorate of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province approved the arrest of Lao Rongzhi in accordance with the law.
On December 21 and 22, 2020, the Nanchang Intermediate People's Court held a public hearing.
On September 9, 2021, the first instance of the Nanchang Intermediate People's Court publicly announced that Lao Rongzhi was convicted of intentional homicide, robbery, and kidnapping, and decided to execute the death penalty.
The Nanchang Intermediate People's Court held that the defendant Lao Rongzhi and others deliberately and illegally deprived the victim of his life, and his behavior constituted the crime of intentional homicide; for the purpose of illegal possession, violence and threats were used to rob the victim's property, and his behavior constituted the crime of robbery; Kidnapping a victim for the purpose of extorting property constitutes the crime of kidnapping.
Lao Rongzhi played a major role in the joint crime and was the principal offender, and should be punished according to all the crimes he participated in.
After Lao Rongzhi was brought to justice, he truthfully confessed the fact that he was kidnapped in Changzhou, which was a confession.
Lao Rongzhi intentionally murdered five people; robbery caused one death, the amount of robbery was huge, and there was a plot of robbery at home; kidnapping caused one death, and ransom of more than 70,000 yuan was extorted. The consequences and crimes are extremely serious and should be punished according to law.
Although there is a confession, it is not enough to give a lighter punishment.
Lao Rongzhi committed several crimes and should be punished in accordance with the law.
The above judgment was made.
After the first-instance judgment was pronounced, the defendant, Lao Rongzhi, refused to accept the judgment and appealed in court.
During the first-instance trial, Lao Rongzhi repeatedly defended that the collusion did not exist and that he was also a victim.
In the final statement stage, Lao Rongzhi apologized to the victim's family, but said that she was used, coerced, and beaten by Faziying at the age of 21. She also thought about suicide and escape, but she didn't know who to ask for help, and she missed opportunities one after another. , eventually lead to irreversible and unforgivable consequences.
The Paper reporter Liao Yan