The man convicted of having incendiary devices planted on a High Speed Rail (HSR) train and at a lawmaker’s office last year was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday by the Taiwan High Court.
Hu Tsung-hsien (胡宗賢), a lawyer, was convicted of attempted murder for making the devices and having them planted on the moving HSR train and outside Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lu Chia-chen’s (盧嘉辰) office in New Taipei City.
Hu’s accomplice, Chu Ya-tung (朱亞東), was also found guilty and given a sentence of 10 years and six months.
The sentences are slight reductions from the ones handed down on Jan. 22 by the New Taipei City District Court, which gave Hu 22 years and Chu 12 years.
The Taiwan High Court’s sentences can be appealed.
The Taiwan High Court found that Hu asked Chu to plant two incendiary devices on the HSR train and another two outside Lu’s office on April 12 last year, in a convoluted scheme to manipulate stocks.
Hu and Chu, both in their 40s, allegedly fled to Guangdong Province in southern China after planting the devices, but were arrested with the help of Chinese authorities. The two were brought back to Taiwan on April 15 last year for trial.
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