Case of convicted child killer reopened after 25 years

A court in eastern China has reopened the case of a convicted child killer after 25 years because of "obvious doubts" about the validity of his confession, the man's attorney said on Thursday.

Zhang Yuhuan, 51, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in 1995 for the murder of two young brothers from his village in Nanchang, Jiangxi province.

The boys - age 4 and 6 - were reported missing in October 1993. Their bodies were discovered the next day in a reservoir in Zhangjiacun village. They had been strangled with a rope.