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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>A knife wielding killer in the Shaanxi province of China is sentenced to death after he fatally stabbing a group of young students outside a school, in Beimendong, Mizhi County earlier in the year<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Zhao Zewei was convicted of intentional homicide today in Yulin, China</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Zhao, 28, launched a knife attack on unwary middle school students on April 27, killing nine<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Four students were seriously injured, while a further eight sustained non-life threatening injuries</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The killer prosecutors said, launched the attack as an act of revenge for &#8216;being laughed at as a pupil&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Zhao, a former student at the school allegedly, believed he was the object of scorn and derision by his classmates, at the time</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Nursing the grudge, he&#8217;d plotted his &#8216;revenge&#8217; all these years, but unable to locate actual classmates decided to assault the current students at the school</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The court deemed Zhao&#8217;s motives &#8216;despicable&#8217; and his means of killing &#8216;cruel</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">&#8216;</span></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-295911" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Zhao-Zewei-1.png" alt="Zhao Zewei 1" width="661" height="741" />Once a loser, always a loser: Zhao Zewei [photo] was sentenced to death after killing nine students in a knife attack in China, because his own classmates at the school laughed at him, long ago<br />
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<p>A man in China was sentenced to death today after launching a deadly knife attack on schoolchildren in April.<br />
Knife-wielding Zhao Zewei, said to be 28, assaulted a group of pupils outside the Number Three Middle School of Mizhi County, killing nine and wounding 12 others.<img class=" wp-image-295919 alignleft" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Victim-of-Zhao-Zeweis-knife-attack-removed-1-1.png" alt="Victim of Zhao Zewei's knife attack removed .png" width="273" height="369" /><br />
In a statement, the court described Zhao&#8217;s attack as an act of revenge.</p>
<h6><strong>Photo [left], show onlookers carrying injured students.</strong></h6>
<p>The prosecution said Zhao, a former pupil at the school thought he was the subject of scorn and derision by his classmates at the time. All these years, he has therefore, he held a grudge and plotted the assault.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The court heard that Zhao had been frustrated with work and life before the attack.<br />
Initially, he planned to attack his former classmates, however he failed to find them. As a result, Zhao decided to attack the school&#8217;s current pupils.<br />
Preparatory for the stabbing rampage, Zhao bought five knives through the internet in March and April.<br />
On April 27 at around 5pm, he carried three knives and headed to Beimendong in Mizhi to wait for the pupils to finish school.<br />
At 6.14pm, Zhao ran towards the students and started stabbing them with his weapons.<br />
The attack saw nine students killed, four seriously wounded and eight others sustained non-life threatening injuries.<br />
The trial was held at 9am local time at the Yulin Intermediate Court in Shaanxi Province, north-west China.<br />
The trial was conducted by three judges and four people&#8217;s assessor and lasted for around three hours, while the suspect was defended by a court appointed public defender</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-295914" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Zhao-Zewei-arrested-3.png" alt="Zhao Zewei arrested 3" width="840" height="476" />Photo shows Zhao being taken into custody after captured (right) he launched a knife attack on unwary school pupils on April 27, killing nine. Four students were seriously injured, while a further eight sustained non-life threatening injuries<br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The court deemed Zhao&#8217;s motives &#8216;despicable&#8217; and purposes &#8216;clear&#8217;. It also said his means of killing was &#8216;particularly cruel&#8217; and that his crime has brought serious consequences and severe harm to the society.<br />
Zhao was convicted of intentional homicide and given a death sentence.<br />
The trial was witnessed by nearly 100 people, including the victims&#8217; family members, the press and the representative of the public.<br />
Zhao said in court that he would appeal against the court&#8217;s decision.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-295912" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Zhao-Zewei-at-sentencing-1.png" alt="Zhao Zewei at sentencing 1.png" width="713" height="344" />The Yulin Intermediate Court deemed Zhao&#8217;s motives &#8216;despicable&#8217; and means of killing cruel</strong></h6>
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<p class="imageCaption">Mizhi [photo], an impoverished area in Shaanxi province, has a population of around 230,000. The suspect in the multiple homicide stabbing rampage was identified as 28-year-old Zhao Zewei, a Mizhi resident.</p>
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Man is sentenced to death after stabbing a group of students outside a middle school, killing nine – Chinese court declared Zhao Zewei’s attack on students ‘despicable’ and ‘cruel’
