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Aging criminal begs to be locked up longer

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-12-25 11:00

A man in his late 60s was sentenced to two years in jail and fined 6,000 yuan ($875) for robbing a woman of a bag containing more than 9,000 yuan worth of valuables.

But Fu, 69, begged a court to jail him even longer for his offence at Beijing Railway Station so he could spend his twilight years in a warm place where food was aplenty.

He said he was too old to support himself by doing farm work in Qidong, his hometown in Hunan province, where village authorities offered him a monthly subsistence allowance of 600 yuan, which he complained "was too little to support myself".

(Beijing Times)