Controversial verdict has damaged society

The fall of another senior citizen and his death have thrust the notorious judgment in the Nanjing Peng Yu case into question once again.

An 88-year-old man slipped and fell at the entrance to a vegetable market about 100 meters from his home and remained lying on the ground, face down, until an ambulance arrived one and half hours later. The man died "because of a respiratory tract clogged by a nosebleed".

Should anybody have turned him over or on his side, he might have survived. But none of the passers-by in the Zhiyin neighborhood in Wuhan, Hubei province offered a helping hand during those 90 minutes.