SORRY TALE:The suspect’s father said that his son had a history of mental illness, had been unemployed for a long time and relied on his parents for financial support
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 30, 2016
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Shilin District Court approved an application by prosecutors for Wang Ching-yu (王景玉),
President-elect Tsai Ing-wen, right, yesterday lays flowers at a memorial for the four-year-old girl who was killed in Neihu on Monday. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
the suspect in the killing of a four-year-old girl in Taipei on Monday, to be detained incommunicado before he was taken to the Taipei Detention Center yesterday morning.
Officials at Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office said they plan to indict the 33-year-old Wang on murder charges, as the judicial investigation continued into the decapitation of the child in front of her mother on a street in Neihu District (內湖).
“There is sufficient evidence against the suspect, surnamed Wang, and due to flight risk and possible tampering with evidence, an application was made to the Shilin District Court for the suspect to be detained incommunicado, which was granted,” a prosecutors’ office statement said.
It said that prosecutors have contacted executives from the non-governmental Association for Victims Support, which sent representatives to the girl’s home yesterday to offer legal assistance and explain procedures of seeking financial compensation. [FULL STORY]
