Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/03
By: Wang Yang-yu, Hsiao Po-wen and Kuan-lin Liu
Taipei, May 3 (CNA) Taiwan has once again broached the issue of mutual legal
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assistance with Hong Kong in order to prosecute a Hong Kong man suspected of killing his girlfriend while on vacation in Taiwan, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said in a statement Thursday.
Although the first such request received no official reply, the ministry’s Department of International and Cross-Strait Legal Affairs revealed that Shilin District Prosecutors Office found new evidence, namely a DNA sample that does not belong to the victim, during a third autopsy, which suggests that Poon Hiu-wing (潘曉穎) could have been pregnant at the time of her death.
While prosecutors office spokesperson Wu Yi-ming (吳怡明) declined to confirm whether she was in fact pregnant, the ministry is asking for Hong Kong’s cooperation in obtaining a DNA sample from Poon’s boyfriend Chan Tong-kai (陳同佳) to determine if there is a match.
The MOJ has asked the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan’s top agency in charge of China policy, to deliver a second mutual legal assistance proposal so that the two can share evidence and secure justice for the victim. [FULL STORY]
