Man sentenced to death for killing wife chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-07-26 15:16 Share CLOSE Xu Guoli stands trial on murder charge at the Hangzhou Intermediate People s Court in Zhejiang province, on May 14, 2021. [Photo/CCTV News]
A man who admitted killing his 53-year-old wife, Lai Huili, was sentenced to death by the Hangzhou Intermediate People s Court in Zhejiang province on Monday.
Xu Guoli, 55, Lai s husband, previously confessed in court that he killed his sleeping wife on the morning of July 5 in 2020 because of family conflicts and then dismembered her body and discarded the remains around the residential community where the couple lived.
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The victim Lai Huili and the apartment building.
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A man in China who offered a 100,000 yuan (S$20,700) reward and did multiple television interviews begging for help finding his missing wife went on trial for her murder on Friday (May 14).
The case grabbed national attention in July last year when Xu Guoli from eastern Hangzhou, then 55, appeared calm and eloquent during the interviews describing how his wife, Lai Huili, left home while he was asleep, but was revealed as the prime suspect in her murder 16 days later.