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Court sets man of death row free after 8-year legal battle to prove his innocence in poisoning case.
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FUJIAN native Nian Bin was released today after an eight-year legal battle to prove his innocence in a poisoning case.
The 38 year old was handed a death sentence three times by two different courts dating back to 2008.
The Fujian Province Supreme People’s Court today announced that due to unclear facts and lack of evidence, Nian was not guilty and will not shoulder any civil liability. This was the final judgment, thepaper.cn reported.
“I don’t know if he’s free or not,” Nian Jianlan, Nian’s sister, told thepaper.cn. “I just hope the nightmare can end soon.”
In July 2006. Nian rented an apartment from Chen Yanjiao in Aoqian Village of Pingtan County to open a grocery store. His next-door neighbor, Ding Yunxia, also owned a grocery store, the report said.
On July 27, 2006, six people from Chen and Ding’s families suffered from food poisoning. Ding’s two children died that night.
A police investigation found the children died from ingesting rat poison. They detained Nian several days later after finding fluoroacetate, the same rat poison found in the victims’ vomit and blood, in his store, the report said.
Police later said Nian had confessed to poisoning the victims. But during his trial, Nian told the court he was tortured into confessing.
In February 2008, the Fujian Province Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Nian to death but it was rejected by the Supreme People’s Court due to lack of evidence. Two more trials saw the Fujian Province Intermediate People’s Court sentence him to death in both April 2010 and November 2011.
In July 2013, the province’s Supreme People’s Court opened a new trial and reached the not guilty verdict today.
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