Top court orders retrial of man jailed for life

SPC: Evidence insufficient to prove the crime of intentional homicide

China's top court has told a villager jailed for life after being found guilty of killing a boy with rat poison that his case will be retried on the grounds of insufficient evidence, following his family's decadelong efforts to appeal his sentence.

The man's daughter, Wu Lili, showed a Supreme People's Court statement about the retrial decision to China Daily on Tuesday, adding that her father, Wu Chunhong, had been told the news on Monday.