A Gansu criminal judge and his family members as
well as their nanny were killed at home yesterday, Lanzhou-based
Western Economic Daily reported today.
Chen Yiming, chief judge of No.2 criminal courtroom of Linxia
People's Intermediate Court, was found by his daughter-in-law at 8
AM yesterday. She found Chen lying facedown in a pool of blood in a
bedroom.
She then found her son's body, sitting on a chair, bound, with
his mouth taped. Chen's wife and nanny's bodies were found knelt
down on a bathroom floor.
Local police said Chen and the three others were murdered and an
investigation has been launched.
Chen and his wife are both 58, the grandson is 7 and the nanny
was supposedly 16. Chen was set to retire in two years, according
to China's civil servants age limitation. He acted as the chief of
No. 2 criminal courtroom in 1994, two years after being dispatched
to the court.
This is the second family murder case of Chinese officials in
the national press spotlight after Wen Jianggang, the head of
Xingren County, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Ethnic Minority Autonomous
Prefecture, Guzhou Province, was found murdered together
with his wife, son, mother-in-law, elder sister and the family
babysitter on November 27.
(Shanghai Daily December 14, 2006)