Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/23
By: Jennifer Huang and Lilian Wu
London, Sept. 23 (CNA) The High Court of Justiciary in Scotland ruled Friday that a British citizen
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sentenced to a jail term in Taiwan for a hit-and-run accident that left a man dead should not be extradited to Taiwan to serve his sentence.
The ruling overturned a previous finding by the Edinburgh Sheriff Court in June 2014 that the Briton, Zain Dean, should be sent back to Taiwan to face justice.
David Lin (林永樂), Taiwan’s representative to the United Kingdom, told CNA that he regretted the high court’s ruling, but he stressed that the government will not give up and will continue to work to have Dean extradited.
Dean was sentenced by the Taiwan High Court to four years in jail after being convicted in July 2012 of hitting and killing a newspaper delivery man, Huang Chun-teh (黃俊德), while driving under the influence of alcohol in March 2010.
He was supposed to begin serving his sentence in 2012, but he fled the country that same year in August using the passport of a British friend. [FULL STORY]
