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A Chinese man with Down s syndrome was kidnapped and killed as part of an elaborate body swap scheme.
There is a ban on burials in many parts of China - to get around this, one family hired someone to provide them with a substitute body, which was cremated in its place.
But unbeknown to them, the body provided was that of a murdered victim.
The murder took place in 2017 but only gained prominence last week after an article on the incident emerged online.
The hired man - identified only by his surname Huang - has been handed a suspended death sentence, according to the Guangdong Higher People s Court.
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The convicted murderer was paid $13,700 to find a substitute corpse for a wealthy family whose dead relative did not wish to be cremated, court reports said.
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