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Trio accused of killing Hong Kong TV executive
A pair of alleged tricksters, said to have preyed on businessmen by spiking their drinks and then robbing them, have been tried along with a teenage relative in Guangzhou for the robbery and murder of a Hong Kong-based media executive. A Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court official said the trial was held earlier this week. No verdict has been reached. Geng Weimin, the deputy director of China Entertainment Television, was robbed of his watch, mobile phone, palm pilot and laptop computer and more than 30,000 yuan (US$3,623) in cash, then killed in a Guangzhou hotel. Reports said he had set up a date at the hotel with a woman he had met online. Once at the Huaan Hotel in Yuexiu District, the woman, Zhou Fangping, 22, and Wang Baozhou, 22, allegedly made Geng drink spiked beer. When he lost consciousness they took him to a room and robbed him with the help of Zhou's cousin, a 16-year-old boy who was not identified, the reports said. The trio, who are from Jiangxi Province, stripped Geng, tied him up and made him reveal his bank card pin at knifepoint, the court heard. He was killed the next day when he started shouting, alarming the teenager, who panicked and stabbed Geng a dozen times, the court heard. Wang and Zhou allegedly were repeat offenders who had been operating in
Fujian Province before moving to Guangzhou.
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