‘Don’t wait for me’: fugitive Chinese killer arrested after 30 years on the run urges wife to find new husband saying ‘I will not be leaving jail’
- Killer spent decades hiding from justice after stabbing a man to death with three accomplices in 1993
- Before being taken away by police, he tells wife to divorce him and remarry so she can enjoy the rest of her life
A fugitive arrested for murder in China after three decades on the run is trending on mainland social media after video emerged of him telling his wife to find a new husband.
The self-confessed killer, surnamed Zhou, stabbed a man to death with three other men in 1993 in central Hubei province, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
His accomplices were caught soon after the crime, but Zhou had been at large until the end of last month when Hubei police apprehended him in the southern city of Guangzhou, where he had been hiding, the report said.
As officers took him away to board a train back to Hubei, Zhou asked his wife to divorce him and remarry, a viral video showed.
When Zhou’s wife hugged him goodbye and cried, he told his sister-in-law: “The divorce agreement is over there, get your sister to sign it. You must persuade her to remarry and not to wait for me. I will not be leaving jail.”
His wife replied in tears: “I am wondering if you don’t want me … I don’t agree. I don’t agree.”
When Zhou repeated, “Don’t wait for me,” his wife used her hand to cover his mouth and shook her head in disagreement.
