China News Service, Nanchang, August 19th Telegram: The second day of the second trial of Lao Rongzhi's case: The prosecution and defense have more disputes. Lao Rongzhi claims to be the "victim"

  Reporter Li Yunhan

  On the 19th, Lao Rongzhi's appeal case on suspicion of intentional homicide, robbery and kidnapping continued to be heard in the Jiangxi Higher People's Court.

  A reporter from Chinanews.com attended the trial that day.

During the trial, both the prosecution and defense interrogated and questioned Lao Rongzhi about the "Changzhou Kidnapping Case" and "Hefei Kidnapping and Murder Case", and presented evidence and cross-examination.

In the end, both the prosecution and the defense expressed their opinions on the comprehensive evidence of the whole case. At the end of the trial that day, some simultaneous audio and video recordings of the trial were played.

  Lao Rongzhi called himself a "victim" and sobbed many times, saying "it's hard to fall asleep for so many years"

  When talking about his relationship with faziying, Lao Rongzhi covered his face and cried many times, his voice choked, and said that he was also a "victim".

  "I have to report everything to Faziying, and give him all the money I earn. This whole incident has made it difficult for me to sleep for so many years." According to Lao Rongzhi, before the "Hefei Kidnapping and Murder Case", he did not Without knowing it, Faziying had caused murders in Nanchang, Wenzhou and other places before. After being arrested by Xiamen police in 2019, only after the police informed that a total of seven people were killed.

The picture shows a screenshot of the court trial video on August 18, taken by Jiangxi High Court

  Lao Rongzhi also stated that he was often beaten by Faziying. He was beaten with a dent in his skull, but he did not go to the hospital for treatment.

  When asked "Why do you need to report everything to Faziying?", Lao Rongzhi said to the prosecutor: "You can ask Faziying."

  In addition, when confronted by prosecutors, Lao Rongzhi did not answer directly.

When asked by the prosecutor how to understand "Faziying asked you to 'hang' Yin Moumou to the rental house" in a confession, Lao Rongzhi replied: "How do you like to understand it? I can't understand it. ."

The picture shows a screenshot of the court trial video on August 18, taken by Jiangxi High Court

  Lao Rongzhi said that he "doesn't remember" the details of some key cases

  During the interrogation of the "Hefei Kidnapping and Murder Case", Lao Rongzhi repeatedly expressed "I don't remember", "I don't have an impression", and "I don't have a deep impression." , and said that he did not remember when the iron cage was delivered to the rental house where he lived at that time.

  The prosecutor said in the cross-examination session that Lao Rongzhi drew a floor plan of the crime scene after he was brought to justice, and drew the location of the freezer, which contradicted what she said "don't remember".

  The defender believes that there are inconsistencies in the time when "a woman purchased a freezer" among the three witness statements about "purchasing a freezer" shown in the first instance.

The picture shows that on August 18, some media reporters concerned about the case gathered outside the Higher People's Court of Jiangxi Province.

Photo by Wang Xiujun

 The prosecution and defense were more controversial, and the simultaneous audio and video recordings of part of the trial were shown in court

  During the trial, because Lao Rongzhi overturned some of the previous confessions, the prosecution and the defense were controversial.

Lao Rongzhi's defender objected to the finding that "the note written by Yin Moumou to his wife has handwriting added by Lao Rongzhi himself".

  Subsequently, the collegial panel invited two handwriting experts to testify in court.

The two appraisers made statements in court, answered relevant questions from both the prosecution and the defense and the collegial panel, and showed the feature comparison table of the two note appraisals.

The two appraisers said that on the note, "Don't let anyone know about this matter", "Put down the phone now, I will die 15 minutes later, they will definitely make me die worse than the person just now" and so on. 's handwriting.

The picture shows a screenshot of the court trial video on August 18, taken by Jiangxi High Court

  In response to the inconsistency between some of the transcripts raised by Lao Rongzhi and the simultaneous audio and video recordings of the interrogation, the prosecutors read out to Lao Rongzhi and his defenders in detail the time periods of the synchronized audio and video recordings corresponding to the contents of the transcripts.

Subsequently, the collegial panel showed a simultaneous audio and video recording in court, and said it would carefully review it after the court.

  Due to the large disputes between the prosecution and defense, the trial of the day was adjourned at 18:00, and the second trial of the Lao Rongzhi case will resume at 9:00 on the 20th.

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