Murder scene in Hsichih Trio case to be re-examined

The Taiwan High Court is to re-examine the murder scene in the Hsichih Trio case in a bid to reconstruct the events surrounding the double homicide 10 years ago.

A panel of three judges conducting the retrial of the Hsichih Trio case has decided to carry out an inspection next Thursday of the crime scene at the home of the murdered couple in Hsichih township, Taipei Country.

Forensic investigators from the Ministry of Justice, who are conducting examinations on recently exhumed bones of the murdered couple, will also take part in the inspection of the couple's apartment, which remains uninhabited.

Both prosecution and defense lawyers will also be present but the media will be barred from the inspection for fear of undue disturbance.

In March 1991, the couple, Wu Ming-han (吳銘漢) and Yeh Ying-lang (葉盈蘭), were brutally murdered in their home. Four men were charged in the killing and one of them was executed a year later.

The other three -- Su Chien-ho (蘇建和), Liu Bing-lang (劉秉郎) and Chuang Lin-hsun (莊林勳) -- whose convictions are widely suspected to be unjust, are now undergoing a retrial by the High Court.

The bodies of the couple were exhumed for further scientific study by forensic investigators of the justice ministry, though the examination has yet to produce any tangible results.