After the first trial of the case of "Chasing the murderer of his deceased brother for 27 years", the verdict will be announced at an optional date. Visual China丨On November 1, 2024, the case involving "Chasing the murderer for my dead brother for 27 years" was heard in the Inter

After the first trial of the case of "Chasing the murderer of his deceased brother for 27 years", the verdict will be announced at an optional date. Visual China | Picture

On November 1, 2024, the case involving "Chasing the Murderer for the Dead Brother for 27 Years" was heard in the Intermediate People's Court of Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province. As a family member of the victim, 47-year-old sister Li Haiyu attended the trial.

According to the indictment provided by Li Haiyu, the defendant Yi Mouhua killed Li Haiyu's 9-year-old brother due to a wage dispute with Li Haiyu's father. After Yi Mouhua absconded for 28 years, he was captured and brought to justice by the public security organs.

Li Haiyu said that since 1997, she began to hunt for Yi Mouhua across the country. In 2014, after Li Haiyu's father passed away, she came to Yi Mouhua's hometown to stay, met Yi Mouhua and chatted with him online for three years. After confirming that Yi Mouhua was the person she was looking for, in 2020, Li Haiyu assisted the police to arrest Yi Mouhua. Hua was captured.

After the trial, Wang Wenguang, Li Haiyu’s attorney, introduced that Yi Mouhua retracted his confession in court, denied the crime, and said that the death that year was an accident. Wang Wenguang said that the public prosecution agency believed that the defendant had a bad attitude in pleading guilty, had a great social impact, and was cruel, and recommended the death penalty. The case will be pronounced at a later date.

demands more than 10 million yuan in compensation

In 1992, Li Huanping, who was only 9 years old, "disappeared" in Zhanjiang.

Li Haiyu said that at that time, her parents contracted an orchard in Zhanjiang and took their third daughter, youngest and only son Li Huanping with them. Li Haiyu has six brothers and sisters in her family, and she is the fourth. The other daughters, including her, all stay in their hometown of Shaoyang City, Hunan Province to study.

According to the indictment issued by the Zhanjiang Municipal People’s Procuratorate on July 5, 2024, on December 22, 1992, the defendant Yi Mouhua and the father of the victim Li Huanping (died 9 years old) went to Leizhou City ( Zhanjiang Administrative City) failed to ask for wages at his father's residence, and the two parties had a quarrel. After being dissuaded by others, Yi Mouhua left.

Li Haiyu said that at that time, Yi Hua’s name was Yi Mouqing. He was 21 years old and was a worker hired by his father. “At that time, he earned a few yuan by cutting sugar cane for a day. He worked for a month and took two days off. When calculating wages, he had to deduct I had two days of money, so I had a quarrel with my father.” She later heard someone say that at that time, Yi Mouhua said that he wanted to eliminate the Li family's descendants.

According to the indictment, in the afternoon of that day, Yi Mouhua went to the elementary school where Li Huanping attended. On the pretext that Li Huanping needed to go home to visit his sick mother, he took him to a sugar cane field and stabbed Li Huanping in the left chest and other parts of his body with a knife, causing his death. abscond.

On February 4, 2021, the non-prosecution decision issued by the Zhanjiang People's Procuratorate showed that after Yi Mouhua was brought to justice, he confessed to the crime of killing Li Huanping with a knife.

In this court hearing, Yi Mouhua retracted his confession in court. Wang Wenguang said that Yi Mouhua claimed in court that he had no intention of killing Li Huanping. When he was helping Li Huanping cross the ditch, the other party accidentally fell on his knife and scratched him.

Wang Wenguang did not agree with this argument. He said that if it was a mistake at the time, then Yi Mouhua had every reason to rescue the other party, but he did not rescue the other party and absconded for many years after the incident without surrendering. Yi Mouhua said in court that he did not dare to surrender because he was young and scared at the time.

Wang Wenguang said that they filed a demand for more than 10 million yuan in criminal incidental civil compensation. He hopes that the defendants will receive severe penalties not only in criminal terms but also in terms of civil liability. As for the final amount of compensation awarded by the court, they will accept and respect it.

Provincial inspection review adds new evidence

After her younger brother "disappeared", Li Haiyu always thought that Yi Mouhua abducted her younger brother. She felt that as long as she found Yi, she could take her younger brother home.

Li Haiyu said that in 1997, when she was 20 years old, she began to look for the whereabouts of her brother and Yi Mouhua. She said she had traveled to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian to look for people, but to no avail. She also said that she was deceived many times during the search for her family and was almost trafficked once.

Li Haiyu said that it was not until her father passed away in 2014 that she learned the address of Yi Mouhua's home from the suicide note left by his father. His father also told her in the suicide note that she must find Yi Mouhua. The night before the trial, that is, the evening of October 31, Li Haiyu told Southern Weekend reporters that the suicide note was damaged while washing clothes and was not retained.

In an interview with the media, Li Haiyu repeatedly told the process of finding Yi Mouhua: In 2016, she squatted with Yi Mouhua in his hometown, struck up a conversation with him as a worker who had worked with him, and then added him WeChat friends.

In order to confirm that Yi Mouhua was the "Yi Mouqing" back then, Li Haiyu said that she had been chatting with him online for more than three years. In order to make the other party relax their vigilance, there was a lot of ambiguous content in the WeChat chat. According to the WeChat screenshot provided by Li Haiyu, on March 5, 2019, a person with the note "Yi Mouqing (Yi Mouhua)" sent a message: "I am Yi Mouhua, and Yi Mouqing is the name I studied in school. A name is a person. "

Li Haiyu submitted the WeChat screenshot to the police. On May 22, 2020, Yi Mouhua was captured by the police in Guangxi. In July of that year, she learned from the police that Yi Mouhua confessed to killing Li Huanping with a knife.

Li Haiyu believes that Yi Mouhua will be tried by the law after his arrest, but things are not going smoothly. In February 2021, she received a non-prosecution decision from the Zhanjiang Procuratorate. The court believed that the criminal facts identified by the Leizhou City Public Security Bureau were unclear and the evidence was insufficient, and did not meet the conditions for prosecution. In accordance with the regulations, it decided not to prosecute Yi Mouhua.

was also delivered on the same day a statement of reasons for non-prosecution from the Zhanjiang City Procuratorate. The statement mentioned that after the case was returned to the public security agency for supplementary investigation, it was still unable to find relevant information such as on-site inspection, autopsy identification, knives, and the victim’s bones. It could not be found and DNA identification could not be carried out. Whether the body found in the sugar cane field in 1993 was that of Li Huanping and the cause of death could not be confirmed. Therefore, Yi Mouhua's confession was isolated evidence and he could not be found guilty.

Li Haiyu began to complain. She first filed a complaint with the Zhanjiang City Procuratorate. After review, the court decided to uphold the decision not to prosecute Yi Mouhua. Li Haiyu refused to accept the decision and continued to file a complaint with the Guangdong Provincial Procuratorate. In 2022, the Guangdong Provincial Procuratorate’s criminal complaint result notice showed that the court added some new evidence during the case review process. The court believed that the existing evidence was sufficient to determine the criminal facts of Yi Mouhua’s murder of Li Huanping, and that Yi Mouhua constituted intentional homicide. , and revoked the Zhanjiang City Procuratorate’s decision not to prosecute Yi Mouhua.

Wang Wenguang told Southern Weekend reporters that he could not disclose what new evidence the Guangdong Provincial Procuratorate added during the case review process.

In an interview with Southern Weekend reporters the night before the trial, Li Haiyu said that if she saw Yi Mouhua, she would ask him why he killed her brother? She also wanted to tell Yi Mouhua: "I personally brought him to court. I hate him. I hate him for killing my brother. My brother didn't even have shoes on when he defrauded him. I hope the court will sentence Yi A certain Hua was sentenced to death."

Southern Weekend reporter Chen Jiahui

editor-in-chief He Haining