Driver who killed 35 in China car ramming sentenced to death
Al Jazeera
Court in southern China’s Zhuhai that sentenced Fan Weiqiu, 62, said his ‘criminal motive was extremely despicable’.
A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings.
Fan Weiqiu was venting his anger because he was unhappy with his divorce settlement, the court in the southern city of Zhuhai said in handing down the sentence on Friday.
The victims were exercising at a sports centre. Fan pleaded guilty to endangering public safety by dangerous means, a court statement said.
Fan’s “criminal motive was extremely despicable, the nature of the crime was extremely vile, the means of the crime were particularly cruel, and the consequences of the crime were particularly severe, resulting in great social harm”, the court said.
The attack on November 11 was one of the deadliest attacks in contemporary Chinese history.
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Court in southern China’s Zhuhai that sentenced Fan Weiqiu, 62, said his ‘criminal motive was extremely despicable’.
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