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Death sentence for man who threw children out window and girlfriend who instigated the murders to ‘start a new family’
- The girlfriend suggested the killings and said she could not marry a man who had children with another woman
- The man killed his young children by throwing them out the window of his 14th-storey flat
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A couple from western China’s Chongqing municipality were both sentenced to death on Tuesday for conspiring to kill the man’s two young children from a previous marriage so they could start a new family.
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The father, Zhang Bo, started a romantic relationship with Ye Chengchen when he was still married. After divorcing his wife, Zhang threw his one-year-old son and two-year-old daughter out of the window of his high-rise flat in November last year, killing them both.
Ye was also convicted of murder and sentenced to death because she pressured Zhang to commit the crime. She did not want her future husband to have children with another woman, said the Chongqing No. 5 Intermediate People’s Court in its verdict on Tuesday.
The evidence was presented during a hearing July, and it is unclear if they would appeal the decision.
Zhang and his ex-wife, Chen Meilin, both lived in Chongqing and raised one child respectively after they divorced in February 2020.
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During this time, Zhang and Ye, who began dating in 2019, planned to murder his kids.
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