A woman sentenced to life in jail for conspiring with her boyfriend to murder her mother has married her co-conspirator — who was sentenced to death — at Hualien Detention Center on Thursday.
A Chinese-language newspaper quoted the bride’s father as saying he is so saddened and disappointed at the news that he will not visit his daughter soon.
Court documents said that Tsai Ching-ching (蔡京京), 33, met Taiwanese English teacher Tseng Chih-chung (曾智忠), 52, when she studied in New Zealand more than 10 years ago. They became lovers and returned to Taiwan in 2010, when the unemployed pair asked Tsai’s parents for financial support.
Tsai’s parents rejected the request and asked their daughter to leave Tseng, which made the couple angry and led to them murdering Tsai’s mother in May last year, the ruling said. Tseng strangled the victim before the pair threw her corpse into the sea off Hualien.
Tsai, who confessed to the crime during her trial, was sentenced to life in prison by the Hualien District Court on March 27, while Tseng was given a death sentence. The case is pending at the Taiwan High Court’s Hualien Branch.
Tseng’s attorney, Yu Chien-chieh (余建界), said that right after his client was sentenced to death, he asked his lawyer to ask Tsai whether she wanted to wed at the detention center.
Tsai said yes, Yu added.
The detention center said the ceremony took place at an office on Thursday. The convicts, Yu, two witnesses and Hualien County Government civil servants attended the ceremony.
The Chinese-language Apple Daily newspaper quoted Tsai’s father as saying he was shocked to hear the ceremony took place.
“The man is your mother’s murderer. You can’t marry him, no matter what,” he was quoted as telling Tsai during a visit.
According to the detention center, the married couple could not stay together.
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