Chapter 382 Judgment
A few days later, the case was transferred to the local procuratorate.
What came out even faster than the trial outcome was the compensation for the murder case.
Early in the morning of the 15th, staff from the association came to the embassy to discuss the amount of compensation for the death of President Xie's family.
(The Crime Victims Compensation Society was established in 1964 to administer and direct the Victims Compensation Scheme.)
The compensation amount is divided into several aspects, totaling 340,000 pounds.
The 20th of the month is the day for the public trial of the case.
Early in the morning, Lin Siqiao and his group drove to the court. When they arrived, many Chinese people had already gathered at the door.
After a while, Mr. Huang Sheng, the Chinese lawyer in charge of this case, also came over.
After the two sides shook hands, Lawyer Huang made a request to Ambassador Liao. He hoped that Ambassador Liao could attend today's trial as a witness.
Lawyer Huang made this request out of necessity.
Just last night, he learned the news that the defense lawyer would most likely bring the suspect's two children to testify in court today.
Of course, before that, Lawyer Huang introduced them to the trial process in China.
In fact, even if he didn't say it, Lin Siqiao knew it.
The country has implemented the jury system since the Middle Ages. The jury usually consists of 12 members selected by the local judicial system.
All they have to do is listen to the witnesses, look at the evidence, and make a decision on whether the suspect is guilty or not based on that.
In other words, the jury is undoubtedly the last straw for criminals.
As long as the jury can be appeased, there is a high probability that the criminal will be given a light sentence or even acquitted.
It sounds funny, right? But it's true.
This is also what Lawyer Huang is worried about. There are no eyewitnesses to the murder, and the bodies of Chairman Xie's family have long been buried.
The only people who had seen the tragic state of their bodies were President Liao and Lin Siqiao.
Lawyer Huang couldn't find a better way except to ask them two for help.
As they were talking, two more cars stopped by the roadside.
The car door opened, and the first person to get out was the defense attorney, Mr. David. Then the door behind opened, and a middle-aged woman in a black dress helped a staggering old man out of the car.
Two little boys, about seven or eight years old, also got out of another car, led by a woman also dressed in black.
Several people glared at him fiercely.
The two children looked at each other as if they were enemies.
If the lawyer had not reminded them early on, they must follow his instructions when they arrived at the procuratorate.
They now wish they could jump in front of these people, skin them and drink their blood.
After all these people went in, Lawyer Huang said, "I'm sorry to have troubled you two."
Ambassador Liao waved his hand and said, "Let's not talk about this now. Just tell us what we should do when we get in later."
Lin Siqiao didn't say anything, but just listened carefully.
The current situation has not come easily, and we cannot allow them to exploit loopholes in the law.
The three of them walked and talked to the lounge.
The trial officially began at nine o'clock in the morning, just as Lawyer Huang had guessed.
They had little to say about the crimes that both of them had committed.
After all, there is the confession from the police department, so it is not easy to overturn the verdict.
Their main focus today is to play the victim.
First, the white-haired old man went up and started crying and talking. The hospital's diagnosis reports alone were a thick stack.
The two children also showed great acting skills. Before they even opened their mouths, tears started falling like crazy.
The sentence, "I can't live without my dad" brought tears to the jury.
Lin Siqiao was less than two meters away from the jury members. Listening to them say over and over again how pitiful these two children were, it was simply disgusting to the extreme.
Indeed, the saying that in times of chaos, the Virgin Mary is killed first makes sense!
Soon it was our turn to make our statement, and Ambassador Liao was the first to go on stage. After all, he was an ambassador of a country, and he couldn't cry and act pitifully in front of so many people.
He could only use simple language to describe what he saw and heard.
Next is Lin Siqiao.
Without waiting for Lawyer Huang to speak, Lin Siqiao took control of the pace himself.
She first bowed deeply to the jury members, and then spoke calmly.
She said it was her first time in a morgue.
She still remembered that the sun was shining brightly that day.
But when she went in, she couldn't stop shaking.
She was afraid, but what she was afraid of was not the corpses, but the people who killed them.
Lin Siqiao looked at the two families across the street.
"The children I saw in the morgue were younger than them, only about two or three years old."
"They were lying there cold, with all the blood in their bodies sucked out long ago."
"Oh, yes. They were taken away while they were still alive."
"Just now these two children said that they couldn't live without their father. I would like to ask, is the deceased's family the reason why they don't have a father?"
Several people avoided looking at Lin Siqiao, not daring to look at him at all.
Lin Siqiao didn't expect them to answer her, she said.
"No! The situation they are in today is caused by themselves, they can't blame anyone else!"
"But the deceased's family was saved by these two."
Then he looked at the two women again, "They have made so much money from reselling cultural relics over the years. Do you dare to swear in the name of God that you have no idea about this?"
Hearing this, there was a hint of panic on their faces.
Lin Siqiao was too lazy to look at their faces and turned to face the members of the jury.
"What these two children have lost is the opportunity to see their dad every day."
"But President Xie's family lost 17 lives!"
"If the dead also have a chance to speak, I think the ones who should cry the most today are President Xie's family."
Having said that, Lin Siqiao took a deep breath.
Turn around and look directly at the two families.
"And you, are you worthy of crying?"
"I have finished what I want to say. Thank you all."
Lin Siqiao returned to his seat, but the discussion about this matter continued.
The 12 members of the jury also fell into deep thought.
Soon, the presiding judge announced a temporary adjournment of the court.
The first-instance verdict was handed down the next day, and the two main perpetrators were sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of commutation of sentence or parole.
This is already the most severe form of punishment currently available in the country, bar none.
The rest were sentenced to between 15 and 30 years.
There has also been new progress on the prosecution period of the case that Lin Siqiao is most concerned about.
The jury members unanimously agreed to extend the statute of limitations for the case from 6 years to 20 years, and to do so by issuing a secret letter.
In other words, the fugitive criminals are not aware of this news.
On the 25th, Lin Siqiao and his group went to the cemetery, paid their respects, and informed the Xie family of the belated news.
If they knew about this in the underworld, they should have heard it...
The matter came to an end here, and Lin Siqiao began to prepare for his admission.
But before that, she had some other things to deal with.
The next morning, Lin Siqiao took all his belongings and went to the London Stock Exchange.
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