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Written by: Zhu Dixin
2020-12-03 10:25
Last update date: 2020-12-03 10:31
Zhang Qizhong, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Hong Kong, strangled his wife who had slept with him for 30 years with wires in the dormitory of the University of Hong Kong’s Weilun Hall two years ago. After that, he even concealed his wife’s murder and accompanied his daughter to the police station to report the case. The wife's body was moved to the office of the University of Hong Kong in a wooden box, but was eventually exposed.
Although he tried to report that he had been violently abused by his wife for many years in the trial, the jury did not accept his insane and irritated murder. Last week, Zhang was convicted of murder by a large number. The judge today (3rd) Zhang was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder according to the law. Zhang earlier admitted to preventing the legal burial of the body and was sentenced to 28 months. The sentence was executed at the same time as the murder.
When sentencing, the judge stated that Zhang Yuzhong had taken away his wife who had been married for 30 years.
The judge also pointed out that whether the cause of the killing in the case was the same as the prosecution said because of a money dispute, only the defendant knew it, but the judge said that regardless of the cause of the killing, the result was a tragedy for the defendant, wife and family.
The defendant Zhang Qizhong, 56 years old.
The charge alleged that he murdered his wife Chen Huiwen (53 years old) in Hong Kong on about August 17, 2018.
He denied murder, but admitted to manslaughter and was not accepted by the prosecution.
After the case was tried, a jury convicted him of murder last Thursday.
In addition, he also pleaded guilty to one count of preventing the legal burial of the body before the trial.
Zhang worked as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong for many years. He was also the supervisor of the Weiluntang dormitory at the time of the incident. He lived in the Weiluntang dormitory and resigned after the incident.
Many witnesses described Zhang's wife as difficult to get along with
Many witnesses who had contact with Chen during the interrogation all described her as not easy to get along with.
As Zhang Xunzhong described, his wife had a "very strong point of view" on many things and asked others to follow her ideas. Some bank staff even thought Chen was domineering and demanding.
The staff of the Weiluntang dormitory confessed that if Chen, whose English name is Tina, meets other people's intentions, he will "get it with one tart," so he is called "Tinashui" behind his back.
Zhang Chang was scolded by his wife
In his own defense, Zhang pointed out that his wife was not polite when scolding others, so he was scolded by the other party for "abandoning", "you can get it all by you," and "bujie."
Zhang was accused by many witnesses as friendly and polite, while Chen Huiwen's sister said that Zhang was pure as a sheep in front of her sister.
However, Zhang became "easy" before the incident. He and his wife travelled to the UK to drive. He was dissatisfied with his wife being "pointing" and angered that he would never travel with her again.
Once wrote 3 bad checks to his wife
Zhang Zijian also pointed out that his wife had asked for half of her university salary. With Zhang's monthly salary of about 100,000 yuan, she asked for 6 million yuan. For this reason, Zhang wrote two papers with the amount of 6 million and 6.7 million. Checks and "debit notes".
In addition, Zhang also wrote another cheque for 4 million yuan at the request of his wife two days before the incident, but Zhang said that his account did not have sufficient funds at the time and all the three cheques could not be cashed.
The police found the IOU afterwards, which stated that Zhang owed Chen 6.7 million yuan. If Zhang failed to pay it before the deadline, he would have to repay 7.7 million yuan.
Zhang Qizhong told the story of the case when he defended himself. (See the picture below for details)
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Chen went to the bank to ask about account opening three days before his death
Chen Huiwen went to DBS and Citibank to open accounts in order to obtain discounts three days before the case.
She also asked a bank manager to go to the University of Hong Kong to sign the account opening documents on August 16.
However, Zhang Zhi did not have time to understand the offer and asked to meet again at a similar time.
Arguing with children for the toilet board before the incident
In addition, shortly before the incident, Chen changed the toilet board of another property to the toilet used by his son. The son was dissatisfied with it. He wrapped the toilets used by his sister and Chen at home with adhesive tape, and coated the toilet with chocolate sauce.
On the evening of the 16th, the daughter asked her mother to clean the toilet after returning home. The two quarreled and the daughter left the house.
Zhang is scolded for sending orange juice to his wife
According to Zhang Ziyi's statement, in the early hours of the 17th, he and his wife broke out in the room because of their daughter buying orange juice and cleaning the toilet.
He was "kicked off the bed" by his wife and was about to take slippers from the bed to leave the room, but he touched the wires.
He used a wire to hoop his wife's neck from the back. During this time, he lost consciousness. When he regained consciousness, his wife was dead.
Zhang suffered from depression at the time of the case
The defense stated that Zhang suffered from depression at the time of the case, was affected by depression, or was provoked to kill.
The prosecution pointed out that Zhang was strangled to death by murdering his wife because of a money dispute.
After Zhang killed his wife, he kept the body in a luggage trunk.
He later bought wooden boards, made them into wooden boxes, and put the luggage in the wooden boxes.
Because his wife was missing for many days, Zhang accompanied his daughter to the police on the 20th.
When he and the police officer looked through CCTV footage, they pointed out that a woman holding a phone was his wife.
The prosecution witness told the story of the incident. (See the picture below for details)
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The corpse was moved and the police officer
As the incident alarmed the police, Zhang moved the wooden box to the office of Kejing Building, Hong Kong University on the morning of the 22nd. However, when he moved the box, he encountered investigating police officers.
He told police officers that the box contained items for the welcome camp.
However, the police officer questioned it two days later, and he changed his words to say that the box contained electronic equipment and aluminum bars, so that the students participating in the robot competition could decide whether it was necessary.
He also claimed to have removed the wooden box and showed the police officer to look at the wooden board.
But what the police officer saw was a separately purchased wooden board.
I was so excited that I wanted to die
After investigation by the police, it was discovered that Chen never left Weiluntang and the case was transferred to the crime team.
The police officer also took Zhang to his home and office on the 26th. A strange smell came out of his office at that time, but the police did not notice.
At the same time, Zhang sent a message in the WhatsApp family group saying: "I wanna jump".
After the police officer discovered the message, Zhang became excited and said, "You doubt me, I want to die." After the police officer calmed down, he went to another room in Huang Kejing Building and found a wooden board.
On the 28th of the same month, the police officers went to Zhang Qizhong’s office on the 7th floor of Huang Kejing Building, and finally found a wooden box with a suitcase hidden in it, and Chen's body was found inside the suitcase.
At that time, Chen was only wearing underwear with two wires wrapped around his neck.
Case Number: HCCC292/2019
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