A bloody case occurred in the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver in 2021, when a Chinese woman, Shen Qin Shen, swung a knife in the courtroom and stabbed another Chinese woman, Jing Lu, was convicted of attempting to ** and sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday (30th).
The incident occurred in 2021, when the assassin Shen Qinqin and the assassin Lu Jing were both 53 years old. The two have been entangled for many years, from China to immigrating to Canada. In May 2021, Lu Jing was preparing to ask a judge to sentence Shen Qinqin to prison for contempt of court, and the two were prepared to participate in a hearing that day.
According to the facts disclosed by the court, Shen Qinqin plucked up the courage to drink a bottle of wine before the hearing and wore red clothing to hide any possible bloodstains. She passed the corona health check at the entrance of the building and found the court where she was about to give evidence. CCTV footage showed Ms. Shen pacing back and forth in the hall.
With a knife in one hand and a hammer in the other, Shen Qinqin Chen entered the courtroom and attacked Lu Jing's head and chest. Lu Jing grabbed Shen Qinqin's wrist and tried to protect herself from further knife blows.
The court clerk immediately pressed the emergency button, and security quickly arrived at the scene to subdue Shen Qinqin, while Lu was taken to the hospital, where she suffered serious injuries to her head, major veins, lungs, and heart, and her life was in danger.
Shen Qinqin was charged by Judge Kathryn Dennh off on February 14, 2023, with four counts, including: attempting to **.
Danhoff was evaluated by a psychiatrist, who found that Shen had sufficient mental capacity at the time of the incident to understand that her aggressive behavior was wrong, and that "based on the results of the evaluation, I cannot conclude whether Shen Qinqin was mentally ill at the time of the attack." ”
Prosecutor: "Shen Qinqin has no remorse!."”
Shen Qinqin entered the courtroom on Wednesday to find out what punishment she would face for her violent acts. She was wearing a dark green tracksuit, white and grey running shoes, and short hair. In the initial part of the sentence, she sat on the edge of her chair with her right hand blocking the work of the courtroom sketcher. Through an interpreter, Shen Qinqin heard prosecutor Jacinta Lawton call on the judge to sentence a sentence of 15 to 18 years in prison, minus four years in prison.
There is not a trace of remorse!Lawton said. In fact, she noted, Ms. Shen insisted that her actions were justified. Prosecutors said that Shen Qinqin was not only a "lucky **" because the victim Lu was still alive, but also because of the premeditated nature of her actions, she could also be called a "lucky first-class **".
Prosecutors argued that Shen Qinqin had "planned and deliberately attempted to kill" and that she should be sentenced to a heavier sentence than normal based on the manner and location of her actions. Lawton argues that Shen Qinqin's drinking was a kind of "liquid courage" to carry out a planned ** and a convenient excuse to claim that she did not remember certain episodes of the attack.
Prosecutors say the combined effects of alcohol consumption and stress should not mitigate charges of violence in courtroom for attempted killings.
The defence lawyer pleaded for a lighter sentence.
Ms. Shen's defense lawyer, Amanda Wilcox, said Ms. Shen had no criminal record before the attack. She is a trained engineer who has worked for several international companies and immigrated to Canada from China in 2005 with her then-husband and 8-year-old son.
Wilcox said that before meeting Lu, Shen had been living a "stable" life. However, as the feud between the two deepened, her mental health deteriorated. She started drinking alcohol every day and stopped taking care of her son. "We all experience stress, but many people's lives don't go through a decade-long deterioration," Wilcox said. This is an important mitigating circumstance. ”
Wilcox asked the judge to sentence him to six years in prison, minus four years in prison. She said the circumstances of the crime and past court precedents meant that Ms. Shen's sentence should have been shorter than prosecutors had claimed. "Her feud was intertwined with the destruction of her life, and the public was not in danger," Wilcox said. ”
The judge convicted Shen Qinqin of attempting to **.
The judge said Ms. Shen showed little remorse for her actions and did not see any medical evidence that Ms. Shen suffered from mental illness or alcohol problems that led her to attack Ms. Lu. Danhoff noted that the attack was not spontaneous, but was planned over several weeks.
"In fact, the crime was committed in court," Danhoff said. Considering that Shen Qinqin suffers from a serious mental illness, although this did not contribute to the criminal act, the appropriate sentence is 12 years in prison. ”
Danhoff ordered Shen to provide a DNA sample and banned her from possessing ** for 10 years. The judge also prohibited Shen from contacting Lu Jing and her family directly or indirectly in any way, including in person, through online forums or any electronic device.
16 years ago, it was "confronted" online
Ms. Lu and Ms. Shen have been "exchanging" on Chinese online forums since 2005, making sharp comments on each other, when the two met online and were preparing to immigrate to Canada from China. They accused each other of being conceited and sneaky, and attacked each other's families, and Shen Qinqin allegedly called the high school where Lu Jing's son attended to verify whether Lu Jing's son had really been admitted to the famous Harvard University in the United States.
Lu Jing claimed that Shen Qinqin accused her of being too poor to afford to buy a house, while Shen claimed that Lu Jing claimed that she wore loose sportswear from time to time, making her look like an old aunt who sold tickets.
The dispute between the two men was inevitably resolved in court, and they sued each other for defamation. But in the end, Shen Qinqin stabbed Lu Jing with a sharp knife in the courtroom, triggering a bloody case, and the security system of the Vancouver Provincial Court was also questioned by the public.