Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/28
By: Hsiao Po-wen and Kuan-lin Liu 

Taipei, Dec. 28 (CNA) The Taiwan High Court Thursday handed down heavier sentences to 33 of 68 individuals in the second trial of a case involving the murder of a police officer by members of a local gang in downtown Taipei, including a 10-year sentence for the ringleader.

The court was ruling on a case that dates back to September 2014, in which Tseng Wei-hao (曾威豪) and his wife Liu Hsing-tung (劉芯彤) had an argument with security personnel at a club on Songshou Road in Taipei City and after leaving proceeded to cause trouble outside the premises, calling on other members of the Zhongshan Good Youth (中山好青年) gang to help them.

A police officer, Hsueh Chen-kuo (薛貞國), was dispatched to the scene, but upon arriving was confronted by Tseng, Liu and about 60 gang members who beat him to death.
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