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Offender Database Bai Liang Su

Bai Liang Su

Alias

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Offences

Bashed his wife to death in a Hastings car park in front of his two daughters in March 2000

Victims

Jiang Su

Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born ?

Current Location

unknown - possibly deported

Parole/Release Dates

Given a "life" sentence in July 2001.
Due for a parole hearing March 2010

Background
Bashed her head into the ground with sufficient force to cause major skull fractures.
NZ Herald story here
From the Dominion 6th July 2001
A MAN who bashed his former wife to death in front of his two daughters in a Hastings car park has failed to have his murder conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal. Bai Liang Su, a market gardener of Levin, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison after a trial in the High Court at Napier in October last year. Defence lawyer Russell Fairbrother appealed against Su's conviction on three grounds: new evidence, the conduct of his trial lawyer, and the judge's alleged misdirection in his summing-up for the jury.

The court had not been told that Su was suffering from a depressive syndrome when he bashed his wife's head into the ground in the car park on March 20 last year. Su's wife, Jiang, had left him in December 1999 and had gone to live in Hastings with her uncle. Su made several visits to her in an attempt to get her to return to him. On the day of her death, while sitting in a car with their two daughters, she told him she was going back to her old boyfriend. There was an argument and some pushing and shoving. Su told police she fell and he began shaking her with both hands around the neck. The back of her head was hitting the tarsealed surface of the car park.

When he saw she was bleeding he stopped and ran into a bakery shop, telling the shop assistant he had killed his wife. He was angry because she was going to leave him and go back to her former boyfriend and was going to claim some of his property, Su told police. At the trial a pathologist gave evidence that Jiang's head was beaten a number of times on the car park surface with enough force to cause skull fractures and deep injury to the brain. In the judgment delivered by Justice Randerson, the court ruled that Su's trial had been fair. The appeal was dismissed.

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