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 HCCC90/2010

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CRIMINAL CASE NO. 90 OF 2010

HKSAR

v

Xu Shengqi

Transcript of the Audio Recording

of the Sentence in the above Case

COURT: Xu Shenggqi, stand up.

Defendant, within a short time, a whole family was wiped out by you: a couple in their 40s and 30s, and their two daughters, aged 10 and 7.

The ways in which they met their deaths were brutal and deliberate, the details of which have been repeated time and again during the trial.

Be that as it may, you have advanced the most ridiculous of defences, at least in relation to the woman and her two children. You said they had died of accident.

No qualified plea of guilty was ever given to any of the four charges of murder before or during these proceedings, which only goes to show that you have not the slightest hint of remorse for what you had done to your victims, who happened to be your cousin and your cousin’s family.

For Count 1, Count 2 and Count 4, three guilty verdicts of murder, you are sentenced to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment. That is mandatory under law. CRT28/23.11.2010/KS