Zhejiang Online, November 17th evening report - According to a previous report from the "Chaozhou Evening News," due to suspicions of his wife having an improper relationship with someone else, in order to prevent her from going out and finding another lover, he brutally hacked at her legs ten times with a kitchen knife, severing all of her tendons. Zhang Xuanhong from Hubei was sentenced by the Jinhua Intermediate People's Court to a term of imprisonment for intentional injury due to his cruel method of committing the crime. On the day he was escorted by court police to begin serving his sentence, Zhang Xuanhong astonishingly shouted at the prosecutors: "Beating my own wife is my business, you have no right to interfere!"
The Cruel Act of Severing His Wife’s Limbs
In late 2005, Zhang Xuanhong met the victim, Tian Mou, in their hometown in Hubei, and they started living together. Due to Zhang Xuanhong being lazy and often beating Tian Mou, she had many grievances.
On January 4th this year, another fierce argument broke out between Zhang Xuanhong and Tian Mou at their home in Hubei. As usual, it ended with a violent beating, which Tian Mou could no longer endure due to the domestic violence, so she fled to Xinyang City and stayed in a rented house with her daughter.
On January 6th, upon learning that his wife had fled to Xinyang, Zhang Xuanhong rushed there as well, firmly believing that Tian Mou had run away to meet her lover and insisted on bringing her back to their hometown.
On the evening of January 8th, when Tian Mou's daughter went out, only the two of them were left in the room. In a fit of rage, Zhang Xuanhong believed that his wife didn't want to return home because she wanted to see her online friend. Suddenly, a thought came to his mind: "If I injure my wife, the online friend won't want her anymore, and she will naturally come back to our hometown with me."
With this in mind, he turned around, entered the room, grabbed his wife's hair, dragged her to the ground, choked her neck, and then took a kitchen knife from the table and hacked wildly thirteen times. It wasn't until the neighbors heard cries for help and ran over, seeing through the window the blood-soaked scene inside the room, that they frantically knocked on the door. Zhang Xuanhong, who was in a frenzied state, finally snapped out of it, threw down the knife, and fled the scene. Tian Mou crawled outside onto the field and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
He Claims Beating His Wife Is None of the Government's Business
When the police arrived at the hospital after receiving the report and began taking statements, even they were shocked by the sight before them: Tian Mou lay on a bed soaked in her own blood, her muscles torn open to expose the bones. Although the hospital managed to save her life, Tian Mou lost most of the function in both of her hands and was determined to be 50% disabled.
On March 23rd, 2009, the Xinyang Municipal Procuratorate accepted the case. After reviewing it, they believed that Zhang Xuanhong's methods of committing the crime were extremely cruel and deserved a punishment of imprisonment for a fixed term. Thus, in July, the case was transferred to the Jinhua People's Procuratorate for prosecution. (By Fang Limeng and Wu Waiping)