Death penalty overturned in murderVICTIM’S FAMILY UPSET: The woman’s father said the family would appeal the High Court’s ruling to the Supreme Court and he also planned to sue the city governmentStaff writer, with CNAThe High Court yesterday upheld the conviction of a man found guilty of raping, killing and dismembering a woman in Taipei in 2018, but overturned his death sentence. The father of a murder victim surnamed Kao, right, voices his outrage outside the High Court in Taipei yesterday after the court overturned the death penalty for Chen Po-chien, who was last year convicted of raping, killing and dismembering Kao at the Huashan Grassland in Taipei in June 2018. Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei TimesThe judges also upheld his conviction for the theft, desecration and abandonment of Kao’s body, High Court spokeswoman Lien Yu-chun (連育群) said. Kao’s father told reporters that Chen has never once apologized to the family and has shown no remorse since the gruesome murder. Chen appealed his conviction to the High Court.

Source: Taipei Times April 07, 2020 15:56 UTC