The Taiwan High Court (台灣高等法院) yesterday upheld a ruling against the murderers of Chiu Hsien-ping (邱憲平), a computer engineer at Asustek Computer (華碩電腦), who was killed by his ex-girlfriend and her husband in April.
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According to the prosecutor, Hsu attempted to blackmail Chiu for NT$500,000 earlier last year after he broke up with her, but Chiu did not pay her the money.
After Hsu married Liu in April last year, she lied to her husband that she had been repeatedly raped by Chiu. Hsu and her husband then set up a sex scam to try to blackmail Chiu again.
On April 21, Hsu lured Chiu to her home by telling him she was contemplating suicide. After Chiu arrived, Hsu started yelling "Don't rape me!" as a signal to Liu, who was hiding inside the room at the time. Liu then viciously attacked Chiu with a baseball bat, from which he died of the injuries.
The prosecutor yesterday said that although the two suspects still insisted their version of the "rape" story was true, a cassette tape, which police found under Hsu's bed, proved that the pair was guilty of staging the incident.
"They tried to tape the whole conversation with the victim in order to later blackmail him," the prosecutor said, "but now, the tape has become the most powerful evidence against them."
According to the prosecutor, the two even cut off the victim's penis, and in view of the seriousness of the crime, the prosecutor yesterday requested a maximum punishment.
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