‘I was coerced’: Chinese woman pleads not guilty to serial murders


A Chinese woman accused of murdering seven people, including a three-year-old girl, more than two decades ago pleaded not guilty to the charges, saying she was coerced into the crimes, according to state media reports.

In a two-day trial that ended on Tuesday, Lao Rongzhi, 46, told Nanchang Intermediate People’s Court that her involvement stopped at kidnapping and robbery and that she was not aware the victims would be murdered by her boyfriend and partner in crime Fa Ziying, according to Procuratorial Daily, a newspaper published by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.

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