Officer charged over executed teen
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A POLICE officer who oversaw the case of a teenager wrongfully convicted of murder and executed in 1996 has been arrested.
Feng Zhiming, now a deputy police chief in the north China city of Hohhot, has been charged with torture to coerce confession, dereliction of duty and taking bribes, Xinhua news agency said yesterday.
His arrest on Wednesday came two days after the Inner Mongolia Higher People’s Court overturned the conviction of Huugjilt, who was 18 years old when he was sentenced to death and executed over the killing of a woman in a public toilet in Hohhot, capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The court cited a lack of evidence in clearing Huugjilt’s name.
At the time of Huugjilt’s conviction, Feng was a deputy district police chief in charge of the case. According to media reports, he and his colleagues were rewarded for promptly solving the murder case following Huugjilt’s execution.
Huugjilt had told police he found the woman’s body after hearing a cry for help but from the beginning police regarded him as the culprit.
On Tuesday, a serial killer was charged with the murder.
Zhao Zhihong was caught by police in Hohhot in October 2005 and had been charged with 21 cases of murder, rape and theft between 1996 and 2005, Xinhua reported.
He admitted to nine murders but also claimed responsibility for a 10th, the one that led to Huugjilt’s execution in 1996.
At Zhao’s trial in 2006, prosecutors failed to mention the 10th murder. But Zhao did, telling the court that it was the first crime he had committed. The judge in the case, however, is said to have indicated that he should stop talking about the killing.
Zhao was sentenced to death on the nine murder charges. But his insistence he was guilty of a 10th alerted the central government and the regional higher court suspended proceedings.
Zhao even wrote to the Supreme People’s Court asking for a review of the case to “return the fair name to the wrongly convicted.” He said he wanted to face judgment day “without any regret.”
On Monday, Zhao Jianping, a deputy chief judge at the regional higher court, bowed low before Huugjilt’s parents when he presented legal papers declaring their son’s innocence.
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