Chinese businessman ‘murdered family in Britain over financial dispute’
Anxiang Du, 55, denies the murders of university lecturer Jifeng “Jeff” Ding, his wife Ge “Helen” Chui, and their two daughters, 18-year-old Xing “Nancy” and Alice, 12 (pictured).
A Chinese businessman went on trial in Britain on Tuesday accused of stabbing a family of four to death over a business relationship that turned sour.
Anxiang Du, 55, denies the murders of university lecturer Jifeng “Jeff” Ding, his wife Ge “Helen” Chui, and their two daughters, 18-year-old Xing “Nancy” and Alice, 12.
Prosecutors say Du, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, armed himself with a kitchen knife before “savagely” attacking Ding and his wife at their home in Northamptonshire, central England, in April 2011.
“Not content with killing them, the mother and father, in the kitchen of their own home, he then went upstairs to find their two daughters,” prosecution lawyer William Harbage told the jury at Northampton Crown Court.
“He cold-bloodedly stabbed them to death as well.”
Relatives of the Dings, who have travelled from China for the trial, listened from the courtroom as Harbage described how Du went into business with the couple in 1999, but they had become involved in a long-running legal dispute.