- Title: China's 'Jack the Ripper' sentenced to death
- Date: 30th March 2018
- Summary: BAIYAN, GANSU PROVINCE, CHINA (FILE - MAY 1988) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINA) VARIOUS STILL PHOTOS OF LOCATION OF MURDER STREET NEAR MURDER PEOPLE GATHERED NEAR SCENE OF MURDER UNKNOWN LOCATION, CHINA (FILE - 1998) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINA) TRAFFIC ON STREET / PEOPLE GATHERED NEAR SCENE OF MURDER STEPS LEADING TO MURDER SCENE DOOR OF MURDER SCEN
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- Keywords: China DNA Jack the ripper killer muder
- Location: GANSU PROVINCE, INNER MONGOLIA, UNKNOWN LOCATION, CHINA
- City: GANSU PROVINCE, INNER MONGOLIA, UNKNOWN LOCATION, CHINA
- Country: China
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
- Reuters ID: LVA001896M0XX
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: A Chinese court sentenced a 54-year-old man dubbed the country's "Jack the Ripper" to death on Friday (March 30) for the rape and murder of 11 women and girls over the course of 14 years, state television reported.
Gao Chengyong, 54, was tried for multiple counts of homicide, rape, robbery and mutilation of corpses.
He admitted to killing the 11 people between 1988 and 2002 in northwest China's Baiyin city in Gansu Province and Baotou city in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, the report said. The youngest of the victims was eight years old.
Gao was arrested in August 2016 at his own grocery store following a DNA test stemming from an unrelated crime committed by one of his relatives, state TV said, ending a 28-year search. - Copyright Holder: CCTV (China)
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