Caregiver sentenced to death for murder

A caregiver who was found guilty of killing an elderly woman in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, was sentenced to death on Wednesday, bringing the issue of the supervision of the senior care market back into the spotlight.

He Tiandai, the 46-year-old convicted of murder, did not lodge an appeal.

At her trial, she admitted the December 2014 killing of a 70-year-old woman she was supposed to have cared for. She had put sleeping pills and poisonous chemicals in the victim's soup and had injected the liquid into the victim's buttocks and belly. She had also throttled the elderly woman with a nylon rope.