'Tattoo' man gets death
2006-06-22 10:34
Beijing - A man in northeast China was sentenced to death for tattooing insulting and obscene words on the bodies of three women against their will, said reports on Thursday.
It was reported that Zhou Jingzhi, 42, was given the death sentence with a two-year reprieve by an intermediate court in Jilin province on Tuesday.
According to reports, Zhou was convicted of kidnapping a former lover - identified only as Dong - in 2004 and using threats and other unspecified means to tattoo more than 100 Chinese characters on her body.
Zhou was arrested in January 2005, after which his former wife heard about the case and revealed to police he had also tattooed insults on her back, neck and face.
It was reported that "seduced seven men" and "seduces men into buying sex" were two of the insults tattooed on his ex-wife.
A third women also came forward accusing Zhou of similar crimes.
The three women protested to the judge that the sentence was not harsh enough because the two-year reprieve most likely means the death penalty would be cut to life in prison.
- AFP