Chapter 284: Innocent until proven guilty
Then, he didn't dare to run away. He could only hide temporarily and find a way to escape after the storm passed.
During this process, he realized that his appearance could be easily exposed, so he started eating a lot, thinking that he could gain weight quickly, so that he could at least be safer in appearance.
The effect was quite obvious. After eating himself into a fat man, he tried to walk around the street and no longer felt nervous about being stared at by others.
Once he met two patrolling policemen head-on. Although he was very scared, he still bravely walked past them without the policemen reacting at all.
He felt the time was right and prepared to run away.
But something happened next that completely stunned him.
He lived in a large compound at the time and rented a small house.
When he robbed a gold shop in Luohe, he divided tens of thousands of yuan after selling the stolen goods. When he escaped, he tied the money around his body with tape and kept it with him.
After coming to Hongcheng, he has been doing this because he feels at ease only when he carries the money with him.
This was indeed the case, because not long after he left the money behind, it was robbed.
After he gained weight, the weather started to get hotter. With his body getting fatter and having fewer clothes, he couldn't keep the money tied to his body with tape. It would be very obvious, and he would feel very uncomfortable if he sweated a little.
He could only wrap up the wallet and hide it on the beam of the small house he rented.
That day he ran back excitedly, ready to pack up and run away.
When I climbed up and touched the beam, I was dumbfounded: the money was gone!
He was so anxious that he searched all over the house and almost demolished it.
In the end, he had no choice but to accept that his money had been stolen.
Since he was a wanted criminal and there were many people in the compound, he had no idea who stole the things and he didn't dare to check.
In the end, I could only swallow my anger and couldn't stay in this place anymore, so I had to run away.
But apart from the few dozen dollars in change he had left on him, he was penniless, so his plan of escape naturally fell through.
With nowhere else to go, he had no choice but to sleep under a bridge.
Before long, the money was gone and he went from being a wanted criminal to a homeless man.
He couldn't stand it anymore, so one night he decided to go back to his old ways and rob people.
He squatted by the roadside for a long time, but no one came. When he was about to leave, he heard a noise in the distance and hid again.
But just as the man on the bicycle was about to arrive, a cry of "ouch" was suddenly heard, and then the bicycle fell down, followed by a groaning scream.
This sudden change put him in a dilemma for a while, but he finally decided to go and take a look.
The person who fell off his bike was none other than Old Man Liu, who sold pig heads.
The old man had obviously fallen hard and lay on the ground motionless, only groaning in pain.
Li Yong immediately went forward and searched the old man's body, hoping to find some money, but after searching for a long time he found no money. Instead he found a piece of pig's head.
Li Yong, who was extremely hungry, started to eat the pig's head. He said it was the most delicious thing he had eaten in those days.
After eating the pig's head, he wanted to leave, but when he saw the old man groaning with his eyes closed on the ground, he finally felt guilty.
The old man was sent to a nearby health center. After that, he wanted to leave, but the old man held him tightly and refused to let go.
Just when he thought the old man was going to blackmail him, the old man took out a small cloth bag from his crotch, which contained more than a hundred yuan in change.
Old man Liu stretched out his hand, meaning to give him the money.
He took the money, but did not run away. Instead, he went to pay the medical bills for Old Man Liu.
After the doctor examined them, he thought there were no fractures or other problems, but he still recommended that they go to a large hospital.
Old man Liu shook his head, and with the help of Li Yong, he left the hospital and went home.
After that day, Old Man Liu took him in.
Li Yong lied that his name was Liu Dazhuang and made up a miserable life story. When Old Man Liu heard that Li Yong had such a miserable life and that they were relatives, he let Liu Dazhuang follow him.
Li Yong was at the end of his rope, and following the old man would help him hide his identity better, so he agreed and told others that he was the old man's nephew from his hometown, and that he was learning business from the old man.
What happened next was similar to what Zhou Yi and the others learned from the administrator, only with more details.
Li Yong said that after having experienced hiding from place to place and then wandering around without enough food, he felt that living with the old man was actually pretty good, at least it was stable.
If he had not been arrested today, he would have even planned to provide for the old man until his death.
Shi Tao obviously didn't believe what he said and told him directly not to pretend to be a good person. Why didn't he show such humanistic care when he committed the crime?
However, in the transcript that Shi Tao asked someone to give him, there was another one from the old man Liu who sold pig heads. From the transcript of the old man Liu, the situation was basically the same as what Li Yong had confessed.
Old Man Liu kept saying that Dazhuang was an honest man and pleaded for him.
This made Zhou Yi, who was reading the transcript, a little confused. Could it be that Li Yong had really reformed?
Judging from the gold shop robbery in Luohe, Li Yong, who was responsible for threatening the clerk with a knife, did not hurt the other party.
But in the June 14th case, Han Weimin and his wife were both killed.
Could it be that...in the June 14th incident, the murderer wasn't Li Yong, but Wang Ronghai?
Meng Qingtong confessed that Wang Ronghai had been imprisoned for assaulting someone and had committed the perverted act of torturing and killing cats. Compared to Li Yonglai, he was indeed more consistent with the characteristics of a murderer.
But this will have to wait until He Bin and his team catch Wang Ronghai.
Zhou Yi continued reading, and Shi Tao began to ask about the relationship between him and Wang Ronghai.
He wanted to deny it, but Shi Tao asked him, "How do you think we found you? If you hadn't given Wang Ronghai the pig's head, we wouldn't have been able to find you."
These words made Li Yong regretful. He said that if he had known this would happen, he should not have given him the piece of pig head.
It turned out that Wang Ronghai and Li Yong knew each other when they were hanging out in Luohe.
But they didn't have much contact, and Li Yong only knew that Wang Ronghai was in jail for hacking someone.
Old man Liu was not feeling well that day, so Li Yong asked him to go home and rest early, while he himself was busy until closing the stall before going home.
While walking on the road, he passed by a man, and then the man suddenly shouted "Old Gun".
He was so frightened that he shuddered all over, thinking that he had been discovered by the police, and immediately ran away.
But he was grabbed by the other party and said he was Wang Ronghai.
Li Yong was terrified, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the person in front of him clearly.
Wang Ronghai asked, "Weren't you very thin before? How come you're so fat now? I almost didn't recognize you."
Li Yong knew that he probably didn't know that he was wanted.
He originally wanted to send the other party away, but he was afraid that the other party would report him, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and treat the other party to dinner.
After all, the two were old acquaintances and also from the same hometown, so after three rounds of drinks, they both had tears in their eyes.
At that time, Li Yong had some half-cooked food that had not been sold, so he took it out as a snack, including a bag of pig's head.
The bag of pig head meat at the back was not finished. Wang Ronghai said the meat was delicious, so he took it back.
Li Yong said that he didn't think much about it at all. He never thought that he would sell himself for such a piece of meat.
Shi Tao asked him, "Anything else?"
He replied, “No.”
"Think about it again."
“It’s really gone.”
Shi Tao questioned him: "What are you and Wang Ronghai planning to do? Do you think we know nothing?"
What Shi Tao wanted to ask, of course, was about his and Wang Ronghai's plan to rob a bank.
However, the nature of this matter is actually quite complicated.
If it only stays at the stage of verbal discussion, for example, two people who have been drinking discuss robbing a bank, but after drinking they go back to their own homes and look after their mothers, then it is not considered a criminal act. At most, it is just empty talk, and the police can just give them verbal criticism and education after they find out.
However, if after the discussion, one starts to scout the location, formulate a criminal plan, purchase criminal tools, etc., it is considered as preparation for a crime and the person needs to bear the corresponding legal responsibility.
However, the ambiguity and difficulty in defining this situation lies in the issue of evidence collection, because before the crime is committed, any preparatory behavior for the crime can be forcibly interpreted.
For example, let's say a person wants to poison someone, so he buys rat poison.
But before he gave rat poison to others, unless he was caught in the act, even if he was found to have a criminal motive, he could explain that he bought it to poison rats.
As long as he denies it, this packet of rat poison will not become direct evidence.
Because the law is based on the logic of presumption of innocence.
The same principle applies to bank robbery, so there must be a breakthrough in the interrogation testimony.
But Li Yong kept refusing to admit it, which was why Shi Tao and Gu Changhai continued to interrogate him until late at night.
However, Zhou Yi could probably guess Shi Tao's thoughts. Li Yong had a wanted warrant on him and could not escape. Whether he admitted to conspiring to rob a bank or not, the difference would be whether his final sentence would be increased.
But Wang Ronghai is different. He is a released prisoner and a free man.
If we don't catch him through this incident and let him wander around in society, he will become a complete destabilizing factor and it will be easy for something to happen again in the future.
From this point of view, it can be seen that Shitao considered issues very comprehensively.
Of course, it is not ruled out that Captain Shi wants to make progress too much and wants to catch more bad guys.
Li Yong's interrogation was divided into two sessions, with a gap of more than two hours in between.
Zhou Yi guessed that Shi Tao must have arranged a two-hour dry toilet experience for him, allowing him to feel the anti-black characteristics.
After the second interrogation, Li Yong's attitude became much more cooperative.
After Shi Tao's serious and repeated warnings, Li Yong finally admitted to planning to rob a bank.
But he said that it was not he who proposed this matter, but Wang Ronghai who took the initiative to propose it.
What Wang Ronghai meant was that he felt it was too depressing selling pig heads in the vegetable market, and he thought he should do something big, like robbing a bank and making a fortune.
Li Yong said that after what happened before, he no longer wanted to do such illegal and criminal activities, and just wanted to run a small business in peace and stability.
Shi Tao asked him, why did you have such evil thoughts?
Li Yong sighed and said that he had his own difficulties.
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