On June 23, the People's Court of Bac Giang province opened a first-instance trial, sentencing defendant Nguyen Van Toan (18 years old) to 6 years in prison for murder, and Hoang Van Tien (27 years old, both residing in Bac Giang) to 2 years in prison for disturbing public order.
For the same crime of disturbing public order, the two remaining defendants, Nguyen Quang Duy (24 years old) and Nguyen Dinh Linh (22 years old), both residing in Bac Giang, were each sentenced to 2 years in prison but given a suspended sentence.
Defendants in court on June 23
According to the indictment, defendant Nguyen Van Toan and a young man named Kien had a conflict with each other before. On the evening of June 20, 2022, Toan's group sat drinking at a snail restaurant in Bac Ly commune (Hiep Hoa district, Bac Giang province).
At this time, Toan received a phone call from Kien. The two sides argued and challenged each other to meet to resolve the conflict.
Toan drove a motorbike carrying Lo Quang Hoan (15 years old) to get a crate of beer bottles and leave it in front of the snail shop, then went into the shop to continue drinking. A few minutes later, Toan asked Hoan to get another crate of beer bottles and leave it at the Ly Vien intersection in Ly Vien village (Bac Ly commune).
At around 10pm that same day, not seeing Kien come to the snail restaurant, Toan called and was told that Kien's group was on their way. Toan immediately drove Hoan and the crate of beer bottles left in front of the snail restaurant to the Ly Vien intersection. Seeing that, Hoang Van Tien, Nguyen Quang Duy and Nguyen Dinh Linh also followed.
After waiting for a while but still not seeing Kien, Toan told the group to move down to the area of Ring Road 4 in Dong Lam village (Huong Lam commune) to intercept him, and at the same time brought a crate of beer bottles.
There, Toan saw a group of about 10 teenagers, including Nguyen The Cuong (17 years old). Mistaking Cuong's group for Kien's group, Toan grabbed 2 beer bottles and threw them at Cuong's group, shouting "here they are".
Hearing the shouts, Duy, Linh and Tien each took a beer bottle and threw it at Cuong's group but missed anyone.
Being thrown, Cuong's group ran away, while Cuong drove his motorbike towards Toan. At the same time, Toan took two beer bottles and ran into the middle of the road. When Cuong passed by on his motorbike, he threw them at the victim's head, causing him to fall unconscious.
Next, Toan took another beer bottle, ran to Cuong and threw it at the victim.
After committing the crime, Toan's group fled. Cuong was injured and was taken to the emergency room by people. The forensic conclusion showed that Cuong suffered a traumatic brain injury, hemiplegia..., with a health damage rate of 76%.
The four defendants Toan, Tien, Duy and Linh were sentenced by the court as stated. Hoan was determined to have brought the beer bottle with Toan but did not participate in throwing the bottle, and was under 16 years old (not old enough to be held criminally responsible for disturbing public order), so the police separated the documents for review and administrative handling.
Believing that the court's sentence for the defendants was not harsh enough, the family of victim Nguyen The Cuong said they would file an appeal.
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