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Online celebrity Chen Mou, a woman from Tik Tok, was sentenced to death by her ex-boyfriend Wu Mou in downtown Cixi, Ningbo. The defendant Wu Mou was sentenced to death in the first instance.
On May 30th, The Paper learned from Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court that the court made a first-instance judgment on the murder of Chen Mou, a dance teacher in Cixi, and sentenced the defendant Wu Mou to death for intentional homicide and deprived him of his political rights for life.
On the afternoon of May 30th, Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court publicly pronounced the case by remote video.
The court found through trial that:On the evening of August 1, 2018, the defendant Wu Mou waited for the victim (Wu Mou’s ex-girlfriend) to get off work, followed him to a business district by car, then caught up with the victim with a sharp knife and stabbed him continuously, causing his death. After the incident, Wu Mou voluntarily surrendered himself to the public security organs and truthfully confessed his main criminal facts.
The court held through trial that,Defendant Wu Mou intentionally and illegally deprived others of their lives, resulting in one death, which has constituted the crime of intentional homicide and should be punished according to law. The charges charged by the public prosecution agency were established. Defendant Wu Mou stabbed the victim with a sharp knife in a crowded public place, causing the victim to die. His criminal motive was despicable, his means were cruel, his circumstances were bad, and his consequences and crimes were extremely serious.Although there is a plot to surrender, it is not enough to give him a lighter punishment. The above judgment was made.
Earlier, eight months after the case was committed, the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court held a public hearing in Cixi Court on April 3 to hear Wu Mou’s intentional homicide case, but no verdict was pronounced in court.
"Anyway,I want to say sorry to Chen Mou’s parents, but I don’t ask you to forgive me. Say sorry to my parents, too … … I will accept the death penalty, and I am willing to donate my organs. "Wu Mou, the defendant born in 1991, said in court at that time.
According to the prosecution’s allegations, the defendant Wu Mou became boyfriend and girlfriend with the victim Chen Mou in 2017, and then broke up. In order to get back together, Wu Mou pestered Chen Mou many times, and held a grudge after being rejected. At 20 o’clock on August 1, 2018, Wu Mou waited for Chen Mou near the victim’s work place in xinpu town, Cixi, and saw Chen Mou driving after getting on the car. Chen Mou got off at Xinduhui, and Wu Mou, wearing a mask and a sharp knife, caught up with Chen Mou near Xinduhui No.52 and forced Chen Mou into a shop. In the shop, despite Chen Mou’s resistance, Wu Mou stabbed his abdomen and neck with a knife, causing Chen Mou’s head and arm to be punctured and died of acute massive blood loss. Later, Wu Mou surrendered himself to Cixi Public Security Bureau and confessed the main criminal facts.
Chen Mou, a 22-year-old dance teacher in Cixi City, experienced a sharp increase in fans and likes on her Tik Tok account after her murder. Many netizens mourned her in this way. On August 8, 2018, the account showed "reset", all contents were cleared, and the account showed 3.11 million likes and 504,000 fans.
The Paper noticed in the previous court session that whether Wu Mou had premeditated murder and whether the circumstances of surrender could give him a lighter or mitigated punishment became the focus of debate between the prosecution and the defense at the court session on April 3.
The evidence provided by the prosecution shows that at 20: 50 on the day of the crime, Wu Mou and Chen Mou had an argument, and Wu Mou wore a black mask and wrapped one hand with red clothes. At 20: 56, he pushed Chen Mou into a shop and ran out of the shop with a knife two minutes later.
Wu Mou said in court that he wanted to get back together with Chen Mou, but Chen Mou didn’t want to get back together and called security. After he pushed Chen Mou into the store, he told Chen Mou that he had a knife and told her not to scream. Chen Mou didn’t listen, so he stabbed her in the abdomen, in order to stop Chen Mou from screaming. The stabbed Chen Mou was still screaming, so he continued to do it … …
According to the witness testimony provided by the prosecution, when Wu Mou stabbed Chen Mou with the first knife, Chen Mou slipped slowly, and Wu Mou stabbed Chen Mou hard, with multiple stab wounds in the neck. The shop owner hit Wu Mou with a mop and tried to make him stop, but Wu Mou kept attacking until Chen Mou fell to the ground completely, when the black mask fell.
According to Fan Qing, a lawyer of Shanghai Xinwei Law Firm, an agent ad litem entrusted by the victim’s family, the forensic expert identified that Chen Mou was stabbed more than ten times, one of which pierced the throat and two pierced the stomach wall.
The prosecution’s evidence shows that Wu Mou threw away the knife in the process of escaping from the store, drove away, stopped temporarily and blocked the license plate with a CD. After surrendering.
The prosecutor said that on July 26, 2018, Wu Mou bought two knives in the supermarket, one of which was thrown away after threatening Chen Mou and Chen Mou’s friends before the murder, and the other knife was put in the car. On the day of the murder, Wu Mou sent three short messages to Chen Mou, namely, "Don’t push me, I don’t have to die", "You must force me to make a life", "You’re finished" and sent a short message to her cousin "I want to kill her". His behavior of buying a mask on the same day can also prove to be a premeditated crime.
After the incident, Wu’s father provided the police with the proof that Wu Mou had seen a doctor in the general psychiatric department of the hospital and the medicine prescribed by the doctor.
In this regard,Fanqing said,Wu Mou saw a doctor on July 27, 2018, in order to escape legal sanctions by "mental illness", which further showed that there was premeditated. "The medicine prescribed by the doctor was not unsealed, which also proved this from the side."
According to the public prosecutor, after investigation and inquiry, people in Wu Mou village made it clear that they had not heard of Wu Mou and his family’s history of mental illness, and colleagues in Wu Mou unit also said that Wu Mou was not mentally abnormal.
Defender Wu Mou said that Wu Mou only wanted to threaten Chen Mou before the incident, and killing Chen Mou was a passionate crime, not premeditated; There is a plot of surrender after the incident, so please ask the court to consider it when sentencing. (The Paper reporter Ge Rongjin)