Cancer claim rapist jailed for seven years

A Fengtai man who pretended to be suffering from cancer in order to win the trust of a woman he later raped and robbed has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Shunyi district court heard that unemployed 48-year-old Mao Feng claimed he was in the terminal stages of his disease in order to persuade his 40-year-old victim, the driver of an unlicensed taxi who lives in Shunyi, to enter his home where she was sexually assaulted and robbed.

Prosecutors told the court that Mao was walking along Bianmin Street in Shunyi district on Dec 12 in search of potential robbery targets.