Poisoner’s dad in last-ditch bid to halt execution
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THE father of a former Fudan University medical student facing execution for poisoning his roommate has mounted a last-ditch bid to save his son.
Lin Zunyao has submitted a “written opinion” to the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing, arguing that the conviction of his son Lin Senhao for killing fellow student Huang Yang in 2013 is unsound.
According to Lin Zunyao, the police report contradicted one made by a forensic science institute and as a result the death sentence should be revoked.
The Supreme People’s Court supervises justice administered at local level and re-examines cases where a death sentence is passed by regional courts.
If the supreme court doesn’t agree with the sentence, there is a retrial or new ruling.
Tang Zhijian, the lawyer of Lin Senhao, told Shanghai Daily that his client had no comment to make on his father’s intervention.
However, Tang said that much of the material produced by Lin Zunyao and his lawyer Xie Tongxiang had already been raised during the appeal.
“Xie is the lawyer of Lin’s father but not Lin’s. So what they do can only represent Lin’s father’s opinion.
“My client Lin Senhao and I won’t make any comment about it at the moment,” said Tang.
“Whether the court will listen to their opinion remains to be seen,” added Tang.
In the submission, Xie argues that Lin Senhao was convicted on shaky evidence.
Lin Senhao was said to have poisoned his roommate with N-Nitrosodimethylamine, and a police report detected the toxic chemical in Huang’s body.
But a urine test commissioned by classmates of Huang while he lay ill and conducted by the Institute of Forensic Science in Shanghai showed no trace.
As the results are different, Xie argues that neither should be accepted.
Xie also said that the water police tested was from the bottle attached to the water dispenser, not the dispenser itself.
Lin Senhao claimed he put the toxic chemical directly into the water dispenser, said Xie.
And Lin Zunyao says that he doesn’t believe his son was telling the truth when he confessed, pointing to inconsistencies.
Lin Senhao, 28, put chemicals taken from a university lab into a water dispenser in his dormitory on March 31, 2013.
Huang fell ill after drinking the water from the dispenser the next day and later died of organ failure.
Lin Senhao claimed it was an April Fool’s Day prank that went terribly wrong, but prosecutors said he and his roommate had argued over paying for water.
The Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court convicted Lin Senhao of intentional homicide and sentenced him to death in February last year.
In January, the appeal court of the Shanghai Higher People’s Court upheld the sentence.
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