A man in China was sentenced to death after pushing his wife into the sea from a ferry and attempting to claim her life insurance compensation to pay off debts and finance the use of prostitutes.
The case of the husband, 47, surnamed Li, was reported by China's state broadcaster CCTV on November 21. He received the capital punishment for intentional homicide from the Liaoning Higher People's Court in December last year. However, it remains unclear whether the sentence has been carried out.
On May 5, 2021, while travelling on a ferry from Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning province to Yantai in eastern China's Shandong province, his wife, also surnamed Li, fell over the railing into the sea.