A court in central Mozambique has sentenced two Chinese citizens to lengthy prison terms, arising from a murder committed in 2009, reports the Beira daily paper “Diario de Mocambique”.The Sofala provincial court found Chen Wei guilty of the murder of a fellow Chinese citizen, Zhong Jun, whom he shot with an AK-47 assault rifle on 7 December 2009. He was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.His co-accused, Pi Biao, was sentenced to 15 years as an accomplice, and for the illegal possession of a pistol. However, neither man was in court to hear the sentence. They both fled after the murder, and were tried in absentia.The crime took place on the premises of the Qiu Zhing Biu sawmill in Chamba, on the outskirts of Beira. Chen and Pi were arrived at the sawmill in a Toyota vehicle driven by Yun Feng Li, who was also accused of complicity in the crime. But the court found the evidence against him insufficient and he was acquitted. Unlike his fellow accused, Yun did not escape, and was thus the only one of the three in court during the trial.Chen and Pi are workers at a different Chinese concern, the Chen Chen iron foundry. The motives for their lethal attack on Zhong Jun are unclear.The court also ordered the two to pay compensation of 235,000 meticais (about 7,830 US dollars) to Zhong’s family and Ren Fei, a Chinese woman whom they injured during the attack.But nothing can be paid until the two men are located. The court has ordered their capture, but by now they could well have left the country.
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