Lawyer admits fabricating evidence

Li Zhuang, the former lawyer of alleged gang boss Gong Gangmo, admitted he fabricated evidence and interfered with witness testimonies to save his client in a court in southwest China's Chongqing municipality yesterday.

But Li's lawyer, Chen Youxi, continued his defense, saying Li "did not mean what he said" and only made the "ironic" confession because he was deeply disappointed with the judicial system, adding he would continue to fight to prove the tainted lawyer's innocence.

Last December, Gong, who is on trial for running a 34-member criminal gang, told a court that Li, his lawyer then, instructed him to fabricate evidence to prove police torture, leaving law practitioners across the country stunned.