Policemen jailed for fatal attempted rape

BEIJING - A court in Hunan province said on Sunday that it had jailed two police officers and three other suspects for the attempted rape of two teenage girls, one of whom jumped to her death while trying to resist her attackers.

One of the pair, Gong Cheng, a Hunan police officer, was given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, the Intermediate People's Court of the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture said.

Xu Lei, the other police officer, was sentenced to 15 years in jail. Lin Yi, one of three other men involved in the attempt, was given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, and the other two, life in prison and 13 years.