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Accused killer gave 'demand for justice'
Chinese letters on white cloth represent protest, Crown argues
Jake Rupert
The Ottawa Citizen
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
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Three weeks before Kanata resident Fengzhi Huang was found strangled in bed, her husband gave her a "very serious demand for justice" written in his own blood, a jury was told yesterday.
In her opening address to the five-man, seven-woman jury at Yonsheng Liu's first-degree murder trial, assistant Crown attorney Julianne Parfett said the message came on a white cloth with bloody, Chinese characters.
Ms. Parfett said a Chinese cultural anthropologist would tell the jurors that "writing letters in blood is seen as a demand or protest. In the domestic context, this is a very serious demand for justice."
"This case is about a young woman who was sexually assaulted and murdered in her home," Ms. Parfett said. "It is a circumstantial case. No one except the perpetrator actually saw Fengzhi murdered."
Ms. Parfett said she expected the evidence would show the couple were having problems in their marriage, and that Ms. Huang, 36 when she died in February 2000, had engaged in two extramarital affairs in the months leading up to her death.
Ms. Huang was found dead in bed on Feb. 29, 2000, after Mr. Liu, 37, called 911. He was arrested a short time later.
Ms. Parfett said the couple's 10-year-old daughter will tell the jury her mother put her to bed the night of Feb. 28, 2000, and the next morning she saw her mother's body in bed.
The daughter is expected to say she came home that night with her father and, before she went to bed, went into her parents' room, found her mother still in bed in the same position she had been in in the morning and started screaming for her father.
At this point, Mr. Liu called 911, Ms. Parfett said, and added that a doctor will testify that injuries found on Ms. Huang's genitals are consistent with forced penetration.
Mr. Liu's defence attorney, Pat McCann, gave his opening address immediately after Ms. Parfett finished.
"I want to alert you to the nature and quality of the evidence the Crown will call against my client," he said, adding that a criminal conviction requires the Crown to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
"It will be my position at the end of the trial that the evidence the Crown has put before you does not come close to measuring up to that standard."
He said the evidence would show Mr. Liu had no knowledge of his wife's extramarital affairs, and suggested the affairs showed Ms. Huang was leading a "secret life Mr. Liu was not aware of."
He said it is admitted his client's semen was found in his wife's dead body, but that this showed nothing more than the pair had sex in the hours leading up to her death.
The first witnesses called by the Crown were identification officers who took various photographs of the house, Ms. Huang's body, and Mr. Liu upon his arrest.
Several exhibits were also entered as evidence.
In the pictures, marks are clearly visible on Ms. Huang's and Mr. Liu's necks.
In her opening statement, Ms. Parfett told jurors the anthropologist would say the marks on the accused's neck are consistent with a Chinese traditional treatment for a cold and some of the marks on the woman's neck are also consistent with the treatment.
However, she said, the anthropologist would say some of the marks found on her neck were not consistent with the treatment.
The trial resumes today.
Chinese letters on white cloth represent protest, Crown argues
Jake Rupert
The Ottawa Citizen
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
ADVERTISEMENT
Three weeks before Kanata resident Fengzhi Huang was found strangled in bed, her husband gave her a "very serious demand for justice" written in his own blood, a jury was told yesterday.
In her opening address to the five-man, seven-woman jury at Yonsheng Liu's first-degree murder trial, assistant Crown attorney Julianne Parfett said the message came on a white cloth with bloody, Chinese characters.
Ms. Parfett said a Chinese cultural anthropologist would tell the jurors that "writing letters in blood is seen as a demand or protest. In the domestic context, this is a very serious demand for justice."
"This case is about a young woman who was sexually assaulted and murdered in her home," Ms. Parfett said. "It is a circumstantial case. No one except the perpetrator actually saw Fengzhi murdered."
Ms. Parfett said she expected the evidence would show the couple were having problems in their marriage, and that Ms. Huang, 36 when she died in February 2000, had engaged in two extramarital affairs in the months leading up to her death.
Ms. Huang was found dead in bed on Feb. 29, 2000, after Mr. Liu, 37, called 911. He was arrested a short time later.
Ms. Parfett said the couple's 10-year-old daughter will tell the jury her mother put her to bed the night of Feb. 28, 2000, and the next morning she saw her mother's body in bed.
The daughter is expected to say she came home that night with her father and, before she went to bed, went into her parents' room, found her mother still in bed in the same position she had been in in the morning and started screaming for her father.
At this point, Mr. Liu called 911, Ms. Parfett said, and added that a doctor will testify that injuries found on Ms. Huang's genitals are consistent with forced penetration.
Mr. Liu's defence attorney, Pat McCann, gave his opening address immediately after Ms. Parfett finished.
"I want to alert you to the nature and quality of the evidence the Crown will call against my client," he said, adding that a criminal conviction requires the Crown to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
"It will be my position at the end of the trial that the evidence the Crown has put before you does not come close to measuring up to that standard."
He said the evidence would show Mr. Liu had no knowledge of his wife's extramarital affairs, and suggested the affairs showed Ms. Huang was leading a "secret life Mr. Liu was not aware of."
He said it is admitted his client's semen was found in his wife's dead body, but that this showed nothing more than the pair had sex in the hours leading up to her death.
The first witnesses called by the Crown were identification officers who took various photographs of the house, Ms. Huang's body, and Mr. Liu upon his arrest.
Several exhibits were also entered as evidence.
In the pictures, marks are clearly visible on Ms. Huang's and Mr. Liu's necks.
In her opening statement, Ms. Parfett told jurors the anthropologist would say the marks on the accused's neck are consistent with a Chinese traditional treatment for a cold and some of the marks on the woman's neck are also consistent with the treatment.
However, she said, the anthropologist would say some of the marks found on her neck were not consistent with the treatment.
The trial resumes today.
