Prosecutors yesterday filed attempted murder charges against a New Taipei City man accused of stabbing three nurses at the city’s Shuang Ho Hospital where he was quarantined for COVID-19.
The New Taipei City District Prosecutors’ Office in a news release cited the wounds the man surnamed Hung (洪) allegedly inflicted as evidence of his intent to kill and indifference to human life.
Prosecutors are also asking the court to indict the man on charges of assault, aggravated assault and obstructing the Medical Care Act (醫療法), the office said.
Hung was admitted to the hospital’s COVID-19 quarantine facility on May 25, three days after
Supreme Court upholds life sentence for murder
Staff writer, with CNA
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a life sentence handed down to an Israeli-American for the 2018 murder and dismemberment of a Canadian citizen on the banks of the Sindian River (新店溪).
The court dismissed Oren Shlomo Mayer’s appeal and concluded that there was nothing objectionable in the High Court’s ruling in January, which upheld the New Taipei City District Court’s conviction of Mayer and three others last year in connection with the murder.
According to the verdict, Mayer, who has dual citizenship in Israel and the US, killed Canadian Sanjay Ryan Ramgahan because he suspected that Ramgahan had informed police about an illicit drug trade in which he and the three accomplices were involved.
Arsonist’s death sentence upheld
Staff writer, with CNA
The Taiwan High Court yesterday upheld a death sentence handed down to Li Kuo-hui (李國輝) for torching a building in New Taipei City in November 2017, killing nine people.
During his trial, Li, an ethnic Chinese from Myanmar, said he heard his neighbors making fun of him from his rented room in the building in Zhonghe District (中和).
Early on Nov. 22, 2017, Li, now in his 50s, left his apartment with an empty bottle, which he filled with gasoline, investigators said.
Taiwan High Court spokeswoman Huang Yu-ting speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.