March 30,2018:
Court added that,“Motives of Defendant’s crimes were despicable, his methods extremely cruel, the nature of the acts vile and the details of the crimes serious”.
Serial killer dubbed as China’s “Jack the Ripper” for the way he mutilated several of his 11 female victims was sentenced to death on Friday, three decades after the first murder.
Gao Chengyong, 53, robbed, raped and ultimately murdered 11 women more than a decade ago.
He was found guilty by the Baiyin City Intermediate People’s Court in China and handed death sentences for both robbery and intentional homicide, and lesser sentences for rape and dishonouring corpses.
Gao targeted young women wearing red and followed them home, often cutting their throats and mutilating their bodies. The youngest victim was eight years old.
Some victims had their reproductive organs removed. Gao was arrested in 2016. The court found Gao guilty of those crimes.
Court stated that,“To satisfy his perverted desire to dishonour and sully corpses, many of his female victims’ corpses were damaged and violated”.
Court concluded by stating that,“Gao poses a grave threat to society and an urgent danger to others and should be severely punished.”
The murders were carried out in Gansu and the neighbouring region of Inner Mongolia from 1988 to 2002.
A lead in the case came when police collected and tested the DNA of one of Gao’s relatives over a separate minor crime, the China Daily said.
Police concluded the killer they had been hunting for 28 years was a relation, and Gao’s DNA matched the murderer’s.
The original Jack the Ripper was a serial killer active in east London in the late Victorian era, who is widely believed to have murdered five women, mutilating several of them. Those killings have never been solved.
Gao was stripped of all of his assets and would not appeal the death sentence, the court said.
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