Janitor admits to choking female NCKU grad student after she refused to lend him NT$2,000
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/10/29
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Lin (center). (By Central News Agency)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A janitor arrested by police this morning on suspicion of murdering a 24-year-old female National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) admitted that he choked the woman after she refused to lend him NT$2,000 (US$65), reported CNA.
At 6 a.m. this morning, police arrested a 42-year-old male custodian surnamed Lin (林) at his former father-in-law’s residence in Tainan’s Rende District for the alleged murder of a NCKU graduate student surnamed Chen (陳) yesterday (Oct. 28). While being questioned by police, Lin said that he had borrowed NT$1,000 from Chen in the past, but this time when asked her to lend him NT$2,000, she refused and an argument ensued, and Lin admits that he then started to choke Chen, but he says he did not know that she was dead when he left.
According to a police investigation, Lin has been divorced for many years, has a criminal record, and has one daughter. In January of 2016, Lin found a job as a janitor at NCKU through an employment agency for people with disabilities.
In September of that year, he was hired as an outside contract cleaner and after September, he was hired by the Institute of Education as a temporary worker. Because his vision is impaired in his left eye, he was admitted as a “physically disabled” employee with a monthly salary of NT$22,000. [FULL STORY]
