Chinese husband’s suspected killer arrested as flight to freedom is halted on runway
Wife confesses to hiring acquaintance to murder abusive husband and make it look like a robbery
A murder suspect was arrested by police on board a South Korea-bound flight they halted just minutes before take off in northeast China on Wednesday, Chinese media reported.
The 38-year-old suspect, surnamed Sun, was suspected of killing a man in the city of Liaoyuan, Jilin province on behalf of the victim’s wife, the New Culture News reported, citing police in Changchun, the provincial capital.
The wife, surnamed Shen, aged 35, had long demanded a divorce from her husband, surnamed Xiao, as she was often beaten over trivial family matters, but was refused every time, police said.
According to the report, Shen got her husband drunk on Tuesday night and had hired Sun, whom she met when they both worked in Japan, to kill Xiao and disguise the crime as a robbery.
