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Alice Yan

A young man in China who teamed up with his friends to kill his mother in a fake road accident to pocket her insurance has shocked the nation.
The 23-year-old son, surnamed Lu, and his friend, identified as Yang, were sentenced to death for intentional killing.
Another man, Cheng, was sentenced to seven years in jail for assisting in the crime.
The verdict was handed down by Taizhou Intermediate People’s Court in eastern Zhejiang province in April but was only made public recently, the news outlet The Paper reported.

All three defendants have appealed but a verdict has not been reached.
Lu and his two friends were former classmates at a secondary school in Taizhou.
They came up with the fraudulent scheme after Lu’s mother, surnamed Xu, was injured in a road accident in April 2023 and received 320,000 yuan (US$45,000) in compensation from an insurance policy.
Lu and Yang withdrew the money from Xu’s bank account before squandering it on luxury items.
They initially planned to jab Xu in the eyes, hoping to get the insurance compensation from her injuries.

When that scheme failed, they jabbed Lu’s father in the eyes with a bamboo stick, leading them to successfully get his insurance compensation of 1,300 yuan (US$180).
Emboldened, the trio embarked on a deadly fraud involving much more money.
Yang suggested to Lu that they stage a car accident to kill his grandfather; the former said he had heard that road accident offenders whose victims were elderly would not be jailed.
Lu did not agree because he was brought up by his grandfather.
They settled on targeting his mother with whom he had a bad relationship.
“Yang told me that if we kill my mother and receive the insurance compensation, my family’s life will be improved a lot. So I agreed to kill my mother,” Lu told police.
On September 30, 2023, Lu asked his mother to go out with him and left her waiting at the roadside. Yang then drove a car, with Cheng sitting alongside him, and smashed into the mother.

Xu was pronounced dead in hospital. She was 44.
Lu aroused police suspicion when the stories he and his two friends told investigators did not match.
The criminal trio had even decided how they would split the insurance cash.
The court ruled that the men should be severely punished because of their despicable intentions which posed a malicious impact on society.
“They deserve to be damned,” said one online observer.
“How wretched the mother was. I am speechless about her son. I do not know how to describe this son and his two friends,” said another.


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