Andy Chu sentenced to 2 years and 10 months

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/04
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Supreme Court on Wednesday (September 4) confirmed the prison

sentence of two years and ten months for Andy Chu (朱家龍), a wealthy scion accused of responsibility for the death of a 21-year-old model at a party at Taipei City’s W Hotel in 2016.

The final verdict was much lighter than a lower court sentence of 10 years because the higher courts ruled that there was no obvious link between Chu supplying drugs to the party goers and the death of the young woman, the Central News Agency reported.

The model had been using the drug PMA for at least four months before the party, according to the autopsy, while no traces of the same drug had been found in the urine or on the hair of Chu and the others present.

The prison sentence for Chu was based on his supplying a wide range of illegal drugs to a multitude of guests for five days running at the W Hotel party. Two other defendants, described as friend of Chu, were sentenced to two years and six months in prison each.    [FULL  STORY]