Another case of violence against judges in China has taken place, when a retired judge was killed in his south China home by the defendant in a divorce case he handled back in 1994, then premised on enough evidence provided by the plaintiff wife that domestic violence was committed.
The suspect, Long Jiancai, trespassed inside the home of retired judge Fu Mingsheng in Luchuan county, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and stabbed him to death, GB Times reported. Fu granted divorce to Long's then-wife upon presentation of adequate evidence proving domestic violence.
Long and his wife wedded in 1989 in Yunnan Province, the place where they first met. Their marriage bore two boys in the process, but their constant quarrels just barely two years after entering married life led the husband to inflict domestic violence on the wife, which was proven in court.
Since the verdict was handed down 23 years ago, Long was no longer permitted to go near the premises of his ex-wife, and he is also prohibited from interacting with her in any way. Despite submitting an appeal to the verdict, the ex-husband remained on the losing end of the case, making him resentful of Fu.
However, Long's revenge against Fu did not take off immediately. The ex-husband's resentment was reignited when he saw the judge spending time with his family during this year's Spring Festival. He has since tracked the judge's movements until he figured out where he was residing.
Violence against judges in China are not that few and far between, and this specific case is by no means a peculiar one, given the pattern of resentment that grew in time among people who found themselves on the losing end of their respective verdicts.
Just last year in February, a case like the present one transpired when a female Beijing judge, Ma Caiyun, was killed by the defendant of a divorce case she heard years back. The defendant, as in the present case, was resentful over the unfavorable verdict--in his case, one that also involves property disputes.