Nanjing University body shredding case family filed a lawsuit a week withdrawn: too much pressure

The relatives of Diao Aiqing, the victim of the once shocking “Nanda Corpse Case”, recently sued Nanjing University (NU), demanding that NU assume responsibility for infringement and security, and claiming 1.62 million RMB. On Tuesday, the victim’s sister, Diao Aihua, suddenly announced the withdrawal of the lawsuit and called on NU to communicate with them and give a reply to Diao’s family.

In the early morning of April 6, local time, Diao Aihua, the sister of the murdered Diao Aiqing in the NU shredding case, issued a statement through the Internet saying that “for various reasons”, the Diao family decided to withdraw the lawsuit against NU.

The statement said, when the Diao family lawsuit South University, hope that this is a normal civil prosecution, “we hope to get a response through legal procedures, to give this response, only the court and South University, not other departments. The court received the petition has not been filed, and during this period Nanjing University has not taken the initiative to contact or communicate with them. After many considerations, the Diao family, who felt too much pressure, finally decided to withdraw the case.

The statement reads, “We have to live in the future, the children are still studying, some family members and relatives are also persuading us, after considering various factors, we decided to withdraw the lawsuit. We have no choice and hardship, and we hope the netizens can understand.”

Nevertheless, the family still hopes to communicate with Nanjing University to learn more about the situation.

“It’s been 25 years, and we really can’t wait any longer. We hope that Nanjing University can give us a reply to what we have been waiting for these 25 years and what my sister Diao Aiqing previously experienced at the school before the case.” Diao Aihua went on to write, “We also hope that the Nanjing police will continue to solve the case and let the murderer be caught as soon as possible to give an answer to the victim and her family. Our parents cannot wait any longer.”

The lawyer for the case, Zhou Zhaocheng, said in a subsequent interview with the mainland media that he had just learned of the news and that the Diao family’s decision was “unbelievable” to him.

However, Zhou Zhaocheng said, since his client has withdrawn the prosecution, he respects his client’s decision and hopes that Nanjing University can actively communicate with the family of the victim Diao Aiqing to resolve the dispute between the two sides through negotiation. At the same time, I also hope that the Nanjing police can solve the case as soon as possible, to return the victim’s family to justice.

The Nanjing “1-19 body shredding case”, also known as the Nanjing University body shredding case, occurred in January 1996, when the crime was a national sensation.

According to public information, on the night of January 10, 1996, Diao Aiqing, a first-year female student at the College of Adult Education of Nanjing University, went missing after leaving the school dormitory. early in the morning of January 19, a cleaner picked up a bag with more than 500 pieces of cooked meat and three fingers mixed in it near the Xinjiekou on Nanjing Huaqiao Road. The police investigated and found that the murderer, in order to eliminate the traces of the crime, cooked the body and cut it into more than 2,000 slices, with very fine knife work, neatly arranged, and then put it in the bag and discarded.

The murderer of the Southern University body shredding case has still not been found, and it remains an unsolved mystery what the murderer’s motive was.

Twenty-five years after the crime, the victim’s family sued Nanjing University to the Nanjing Gulou District Court on March 29, 2021, demanding that NU assume responsibility for tort liability and security, and demanding that the defendant NU bear the funeral expenses, moral damages, and consolation money totaling 1.62 million yuan in damages. Subsequently, the topic of “the family of the broken body case of Nanjing University formally sued the school” quickly rose to the first microblogging hot search list, triggering national debate.