Our staff reporter Yuan Zhang - Eight minutes after leaving his office, he was found covered in blood under the Wukesong Bridge. On July 25th last year at noon, Jiao, a senior music editor of Central People's Broadcasting Station, was killed. Recently, defendant Huang has been prosecuted for intentional injury by the First Intermediate Court, claiming that he suspected his wife had an improper relationship with Jiao.
A passerby discovered the victim and reported it to the police. The case files show that at 12:30 PM on July 25th, 2011, young woman Guo just came out of the subway and saw victim Jiao at the northeast corner of Wukesong Bridge. "That man was lying in the accumulated water by the road, facing the sky with his head towards the road. I saw blood on his right hand back and both sides of his forehead, so I quickly called 110 to report it."
Jiao was then sent to the PLA 301 Hospital. After examination, he suffered from skull abrasion, bilateral lung congestion, etc., and died three days later despite medical efforts. According to the autopsy report, Jiao died from severe brain damage caused by being struck on the head and face with a blunt object.
Colleagues helped their husband surrender by phone
The surveillance video of Central People's Broadcasting Station showed that Jiao left the unit at 12:22 PM. He was alone and walked out of the west gate.
According to Jiao's mobile phone call records, his female colleague Zhang had made three consecutive calls to Jiao before the incident, thus the investigators focused on this clue.
At the same time, Jiao's family, the security department of Central People's Broadcasting Station, and Huang's workplace respectively received Zhang's call, saying "Jiao was beaten by my husband, we are surrendering." Subsequently, Huang was controlled by the police.
Used a wine bottle to beat the victim
According to the case files, Huang, born in 1979, was the department manager of the Event Operation Center of CCTV China Vision Sports Entertainment Co., Ltd. before the incident. He and his wife Zhang were university classmates, and they have a four-year-old son.
Huang said, "We've been married for nine years, but since the beginning of last year, we have been arguing constantly, and 'frequently mentioned Jiao, so I suspected that Zhang might have had an affair.'"
Huang said, on the day of the incident, he saw Zhang and Jiao get into Zhang's car, so he drove and tailed them all the way until they reached the opposite side of the road from the PLA 301 Hospital. At this point, Zhang and Jiao were waiting for the traffic light, so Huang pulled his car over.
"I thought they had an improper relationship, and I was very angry, so I wanted to ask clearly," said Huang. He jumped out of the car and grabbed an empty wine bottle, "After Jiao got out of the car, I hit his upper body with the wine bottle in my right hand and kicked his legs."
Zhang claimed that after her husband beat someone up, she saw "Jiao walking to the roadside, waving to me indicating that I should leave. At that time, I saw him in the car and thought he was fine," so Huang and Zhang drove away separately.
Defendant's wife denies infidelity
Regarding the infidelity that Huang suspected, both Zhang and Jiao's families denied it. Zhang testified that Jiao was a technical person in the station, "Sometimes when Jiao repaired things for me, I would treat him to dinner, and we also played badminton together."
According to the court record verified by the victim's family, from 2 PM to 3 PM on the day of the incident, Zhang booked a court under her name at a badminton court on the west side of the Fourth Ring Road.
Zhang said, "Because I do a lot of programming work in the unit, sometimes I go home late. He (defendant Huang) always asks me what I did, but even if I tell him, he doesn't believe me. I told him that my computer sound card was broken, and Jiao from the unit fixed it for me, and that's how it happened," which is why Jiao was mentioned multiple times during the couple's arguments.
The prosecution believes that Huang's behavior constitutes intentional injury. However, the family of victim Jiao believed that Huang left the injured Jiao by the roadside, knowing that his actions could lead to fatal consequences, and either hoped or allowed such results to occur, and should be charged with intentional homicide. This week, the First Intermediate Court will publicly hear this case.
Man suspects wife having an ambiguous relationship with colleague and beats rival to death on the street.