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Survivor was a convicted killer: report

A Taiwanese fisherman who claimed to have been stranded on an Indian Ocean island for 27 years turned out to be a convicted killer and alleged sex offender instead of a skillful survivor, a newspaper report said yesterday.

When Hu Wen-hu (胡文虎) returned to Taiwan in the middle of last month, he told court officials his boat dropped him on Reunion Island by accident in 1981.

He said he had returned to Taiwan to get identification papers so he could apply for a residence permit in Reunion and marry a local woman.

But on Monday, the Chinese-language United Daily News cited the Web site of the French-language Le Journal de la Reunion as reporting that Hu was expelled last month after serving five years in jail for killing a man in 1985 and sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl in 2006.

The United Daily News report said Hu acknowledged he was jailed for murder but denied the allegation of sexual assault.

The Criminal Investigation Bureau said it would seek the aid of the French government on Hu’s reported crimes before deciding how to proceed with him.
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