Prosecutors: Stabbings amounted to 'excessive' act of self-defense

Prosecutors in the appeal of a young man who had been sentenced to life in prison for intentionally causing injury said his behavior fit the legal definition of excessive self-defense when the case was reheard over the weekend.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate posted a statement on Sunday saying that Yu Huan's actions in the stabbing case were a kind of self-defense, "but obviously excessive".

Twenty-one-year-old Yu was convicted on Feb 17 for stabbing four debt collectors who confronted him and his mother. One of the debt collectors later died.