Woman admits manslaughter over 'attempted castration' of ex
June 1, 2012 - 2:27PM
A Sydney woman accused of cutting her former lover's penis in an attempt to castrate him has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter.
Jian Chen was arraigned in the NSW Supreme Court today, where the crown accepted her guilty plea to the less serious offence of the manslaughter of Xian Peng, 48, in February 2011.
The matter was put over to August 10 for a sentencing hearing.
The then 48-year-old Chen was arrested last year when she appeared in Burwood Local Court.
According to a statement of facts before that court, police said she had used sleeping pills to spike the soup she gave her former partner at her North Ryde home on February 9.
Mr Peng had only recently returned to Australia from China with a new girlfriend, the statement of facts said.
Once Mr Peng was asleep, Chen allegedly bound his hands and feet and stabbed him a number of times in the neck and groin, before cutting his penis and scrotum.
"An attempt to castrate him had taken place," said the police facts.
"The victim also had lacerations to the left side of his groin and his penis had been scalped."
Chen, who ran a business importing seafood, allegedly called an ambulance, saying she had just stabbed her boyfriend.
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Jian Chen was arraigned in the NSW Supreme Court today, where the crown accepted her guilty plea to the less serious offence of the manslaughter of Xian Peng, 48, in February 2011.
The matter was put over to August 10 for a sentencing hearing.
The then 48-year-old Chen was arrested last year when she appeared in Burwood Local Court.
According to a statement of facts before that court, police said she had used sleeping pills to spike the soup she gave her former partner at her North Ryde home on February 9.
Mr Peng had only recently returned to Australia from China with a new girlfriend, the statement of facts said.
Once Mr Peng was asleep, Chen allegedly bound his hands and feet and stabbed him a number of times in the neck and groin, before cutting his penis and scrotum.
"An attempt to castrate him had taken place," said the police facts.
"The victim also had lacerations to the left side of his groin and his penis had been scalped."
Chen, who ran a business importing seafood, allegedly called an ambulance, saying she had just stabbed her boyfriend.
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The defendant in this case is my friend's friend. When I was asked about the case last October, I wrote the blog 去勢謀殺案 about it. She was brought up for arraignment this morning in the Supreme Court. I am surprised to see a lesser charge was accepted by the Crown. Obviously, the defendant ran the diminished responsibility defence. I was told she suffered from some sort of mental problem. The question here is whether her mental impairment was serious enough to raise this defence which is written in the statue rather than in the common law. Given there was element of premeditation, sleeping pills spiked the soup provided to the deceased, the acceptance of manslaughter is rather an unexpected result. Unless, the psychiatric report states that abnormality of her mind had substantially impaired her mental responsibility for her act in the killing, otherwise the case should be put before the jury to decide. Maybe it is one of the occasions the prosecution tampers justice with mercy seeing that the defendant was pitiful and was swindled money by the deceased. I have yet to see the judgement on reasons for sentence in August to get a fuller picture.
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