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Five get life in jail for brutal murder and rape in Taiwan

Xinhua, June 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

A Taiwan court on Friday sentenced four men and a woman to life in prison for the murder and rape of a schoolgirl in May last year.

The girl, a junior middle school student from Hsinchu County, had a quarrel with 27-year-old woman surnamed Huang.

Huang told her husband surnamed Lin, who with three male friends, took the girl from an Internet bar to a riverside park where they raped her and left the scene. The next day they returned and found the girl dead. Endi