Ghost of murdered Taiwanese woman prompts successful retrial
(DPA)
13 May 2006

TAIPEI - A Taiwanese court has sentenced a man to 15 years in jail for
killing his girl friend in a retrial said to have been prompted by the
victim's ghost, Taiwanese television reported on Saturday.
Issuing its verdict Friday, the Taichung District Court found Wang
Chi-cheng, 25, guilty of pushing his girlfriend Chen Chi-hsuan, 22, over
a bridge and killing her.

Chen, a kindergarten teacher in Taichung county, central Taiwan, and
Wang had known each other since high school and had been dating for
several years.
But in 2004, Chen told Wang that she wanted to break up with Wang. He
however wanted to continue the relationship.

Chen is reported to have left her home about 1.00 am on December 7, 2004
to meet Wang to discuss their breakup. Wang told police that he and Chen
were quarrelling on a bridge and that Chen jumped to her death.
But Chen's parents claimed their daughter had no reason to commit
suicide, and that her ghost kept visiting them to tell them she had been
murdered.

Wang was initially cleared of murder, but the trial was re-opened last
year at Chen's parents' request.

"Although justice is delayed, it shows there is justice in the world,"
Yeh Ya-shan, the mother of the victim, told cable television channels
TVBS