“I still have a ten-month-old daughter to take care of.” So said Hou, who was the deputy chief of a police station in Kuitun, Xinjiang, during the trial.
Hou was accused of favoritism in two cases. The two cases involved female police officer Wei Mou, just because of a parking dispute, Wei Mou actually called five men to beat a pregnant woman to miscarriage.
Recently, China’s judicial documents online public Hou Mou’s first instance criminal verdict.
The verdict shows that Hou Mou was the deputy chief of a police station in Kuitun City Mission, Wei Mou was a police officer in the Fenghua Lane community police office of Unity Road Police Station.
On April 27, 2014, Wei had an argument with Tian and Zhang because of a trivial parking matter, and Wei summoned her husband Zhu and five other male officers to beat Tian and Zhang. on May 6, 2014, Zhang was diagnosed as having a pre-eclampsia miscarriage by Ili Prefecture Kuitun Hospital. After the case, Hou, as the then deputy chief of a police station in Kuitun City Mission, the case contractor, did not Zhu and other five personnel involved in the investigation, summoning, making statements, fixing evidence of the facts of the crime, and other work, the crime scene monitoring video retrieved was lost, in the absence of “forensic human injury degree Appraisal“, illegal to inform Tian, Zhang’s injury identification for minor injuries, and accept the leadership arrangements, in The case was closed without identifying all the criminal facts of the case mediation, resulting in the case involved Wei and other five people involved in the case failed to be prosecuted.
On March 8, 2015, because Song rented Wei’s father’s storefront does not pay the heating bill, Wei and her husband and four other people came to the scene and Song got into a dispute and injured Song.
Hou as the then deputy director of a police station in charge of law enforcement case work in Kuitun City, the case contractor, in the process of handling the case, knowing that Wei and other people involved in the case, still did not investigate and verify Wei and other people, after the crime to the case before the 52 days of evidence collection and fixing work, arranged to make a person made Wei, Zhu was not at the scene of the statement, resulting in Wei and other people were not held criminally responsible, resulting in the case only found a person guilty of intentional injury and was sentenced to probation.
Until April 14, 2019, the Kuitun City Public Security Bureau to Wei Mou and others to provoke the crime of re-investigation, June 26, 2020, Wei Mou and three others for the crime of intentional injury was sentenced to prison by the Kuitun City People’s Court.
During the trial, Hou argued that the two cases were handled by accepting the arrangement of Dai Mou, the then chief of the Unity Road Police Station, and the cases were handled under his instructions from filing, acceptance and mediation. During the disciplinary committee investigation, he and Dai met three or four times, there is collusion with each other, its fear of Dai retaliation, to their own shoes. In the prosecution, it truthfully confessed that Dai Mou instructed him to harbor the suspect, resulting in the suspect was not held legally responsible, and whistleblowing and uncovering a number of crime clues involving black and evil and job-related crime clues.
“The father is disabled due to work, is now paralyzed in bed, the mother is frail and sick has aged, unable to take care of his father, his daughter is less than a week old …… pleaded with the court to exempt me from criminal punishment or sentenced to probation.”
The People’s Court of Kuitun City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, heard that the defendant Hou, as a police officer, bending the law for personal gain, knowingly harboring a person who is guilty and not subjecting him to prosecution, constitutes the crime of bending the law for personal gain and should be punished according to law.
The defendant and the defense on the first alleged criminal facts of the defendant Houmou was arranged by the leadership of the defense, the investigation that the evidence on file only Houmou’s own confession, and no other evidence to support each other, so the defense, the court did not accept. The defendant and the defense on the defendant Houmou to the procuratorial authorities to provide multiple clues to report and expose other people’s crimes, the investigation that the defendant Houmou to the procuratorial authorities to provide multiple clues to other people’s crimes, two of which have been initially verified, but has not yet had the final result, so the defendant Houmou can not be found to have meritorious performance, but in sentencing can be taken into account as appropriate.
Comprehensive case, the first trial to the defendant Houmou guilty of favoritism, sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for three years.
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