Girlfriend of serial killer pleads not guilty
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E-mail Shanghai Daily, January 16, 2013
The girlfriend of a serial killer, Zhou Kehua who shot 10 people to death over an eight year period, pleaded not guilty to harboring a fugitive yesterday in Chongqing Municipality.
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Zhang Guiying on trial. [Video clip] |
Zhang Guiying pleaded not guilty because she didn't know about the killings of her boyfriend, surnamed Zhou, her lawyer Yao Fei said, according to Chengdu Business Daily.
Zhou, who was on the Ministry of Public Security's most wanted list, was gunned down by a police officer on August 14 in Chongqing.
Prosecutors said Zhang, who worked at a salon in Yibin City in Sichuan Province, fell in love with Zhou in April and invited him to live with her. He had fled to Chongqing in the wake of a nationwide manhunt after he killed a construction worker in Nanjing City and stole 200,000 yuan (US$32,180) in January 2012.
Prosecutors said before the pair moved to Chongqing, Zhang had seen Zhou's gun.
On August 10, Zhou killed a woman outside a Bank of China branch during a robbery and later shot dead a railway police officer who had tried to question him. That afternoon, Zhou met Zhang in a hostel and gave her the stolen 60,000 yuan. Zhang later deposited the money in her bank accounts, prosecutors said, according to the report.
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