Taipei prosecutors said yesterday they had detained another main suspect, Hsiao Jui-hung (蕭叡鴻), following the beating death of a police detective outside a Taipei nightclub at the weekend.
Investigators say Hsiao, Tseng Wei-hao (曾威豪) and his girlfriend Liu Hsin-tung (劉芯彤) were the alleged instigators of a gang attack on police detective Hsueh Chen-kuo (薛貞國) at the Spark ATT bar in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義) on Sunday.
The Taipei District Court yesterday granted a request filed by the Taipei Prosecutors’ Office to have Hsiao, Tseng and Liu detained.
Hsueh’s death has rocked the Taipei City Government as well as the police community.
The detective was attacked with baseball bats and clubs, then dragged outside into the street and left to die from injuries to his head and body.
Tseng and Liu turned themselves in on Monday after an intense manhunt by the police, who questioned the suspects’ families and gang chapters allegedly involved in the nightclub beating.
Hsiao, 26, is reportedly one of the leaders of the “He Tang” (和堂) chapter of the Bamboo Union (竹聯幫), a well-known triad.
Twelve others, reportedly members of the He Tang chapter who allegedly carried out the beating — allegedly instructed by the suspects — were also questioned by prosecutors.
They were released on bail varying between NT$100,000 (US$3,316) and NT$50,000.
Prosecutors said the three main suspects are charged with homicide.
Other alleged accomplices have not been arraigned, but would be detained in custody and held incommunicado, to prevent them from colluding, destroying evidence or fleeing the country.
According to prosecutors, Tseng and Liu were involved in a dispute at the Spark ATT club on Friday, and Liu allegedly requested that Hsiao carry out a revenge action.
Hsiao allegedly used the social messaging app Line to call up about 50 underlings from the United Bamboo gang’s He Tang chapter, prosecutors said.
Tseng and Liu said through their lawyers that the whole thing was “a misunderstanding,” and that they did not know the man being beaten up was a police officer.
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