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a 19-year-old man from yiwu was arrested for suspected illegal entry into a residence while looking at a house. the first trial of the case has been held but no verdict has been announced

2024-08-31

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according to previous media reports, in early january 2024, a netizen posted a post titled "ask for help with real name: my 19-year-old son rented a house and looked at it for less than 10 minutes, but was accused of illegally entering a residence?" to appeal for his son's injustice, which attracted the attention of netizens.

a reporter from red star news learned from the poster wang moujie that after the incident, his son wang mouyang was detained by the yiwu public security bureau on suspicion of illegally entering a residence. the case has been transferred to the yiwu people's procuratorate for review and prosecution. on august 29 and 30, the court held hearings for two consecutive days, but no verdict was announced in court.

▲family members of zhou zhaocheng and wang mouyang

man after viewing the house

charged with criminal trespass

according to a previous report by xin huanghe, the rental house has three floors, with two rooms on the second floor, a shared bathroom in the corridor, and a balcony on the third floor. there is an outdoor staircase on one side of the building, and tenants can go directly to the second floor via the stairs.

the landlord, ms. wu, said in an interview with the media that the second floor had been rented to the victim's family for the past three years. the female tenant was about 30 years old and had two young children. at that time, the female tenant's lease was about to expire, so ms. wu hung a "house for rent" billboard on the kitchen window of her old house, and left her mobile phone number on it.

according to wang mouyang's family's retelling to the media, at around 4 p.m. on december 20, 2023, 19-year-old wang mouyang went to look for a house near the factory in order to rent one for his girlfriend.

a reporter from red star news learned from wang moujie that after wang mouyang was arrested, the procuratorate found out that wang mouyang's arrest involved two victims in different rental houses. the first victim was ms. wu's tenant lu. at about 16:48 on december 20, 2023, wang mouyang first went to the third floor to check, and then wandered in front of lu's room on the second floor. when lu, who was alone in the room, opened the door, he controlled lu without consent by using his feet against the door and his hands to pinch lu's neck. he forcibly entered the house, closed the door and pushed the victim lu onto the bed. lu said that her husband would be back from get off work soon, and wang mouyang threatened lu not to call the police and left.

wang mouyang's family said that through the surveillance video, they can infer that wang mouyang entered the woman's room between the time the door was opened and the time wang mouyang went downstairs, which was only a few minutes. "if the child really committed a crime, how could he be so calm with his hands in his pockets and slowly walk downstairs?" the family members were puzzled.

another victim was a girl named zhu. the first time was at 20:40 on december 8, 2023. wang knocked on the door and asked zhu, a tenant girl who was alone on the second floor, for the landlord's number. zhu did not have the landlord's number and closed the door. wang knocked on the door again and forced his way into the house under the pretext of checking the layout of the room. after zhu claimed that her parents were coming back, wang left the room but still lingered outside the door until zhu's family received a call and rushed to the scene.

the second time was around 3:00 p.m. on december 18, 2023. when no one answered the door after wang mouyang knocked, he pushed the door open and entered the room. he found zhu moumou and his father in the room. he then lied and asked for the landlord's phone number for rent, but left after failing to get it.

the third time was at around 20:00 on december 20, 2023. wang mouyang once again came to the door of zhu moumou's residence on the second floor of the crime scene and was discovered by zhu moumou's father who had returned home. wang mouyang lied again that he wanted to rent a house and asked for the landlord's phone number before leaving.

men's lawyer:

to defend innocence: the surveillance camera did not capture the situation inside the house

red star news reporter learned from wang mouyang's defense lawyer zhou zhaocheng that the first trial of the case of "19-year-old wang mouyang was arrested for suspected crime while looking at a house" has ended, and the case is still under trial, and the court has not announced the verdict in court. the yiwu people's procuratorate filed a public prosecution against the defendant wang mouyang for the crime of illegally entering a residence, and the defense lawyer defended wang mouyang's innocence.

zhou zhaocheng pointed out that the main basis for the prosecution to accuse wang mouyang of illegally entering a residence was the accusation of the female tenant. however, since the surveillance video did not capture the situation inside the house and there were differences in the verbal evidence between the two parties, in order to determine that it constituted a crime, it is still necessary to rely on other evidence to restore the truth. including on-site investigation, physical evidence inspection, witness testimony, etc. the constituent elements of the crime of illegally entering a residence include forced entry or refusal to exit without the consent of the owner of the residence. zhou zhaocheng said that the surveillance video can confirm that wang mouyang went upstairs at 4:42 pm on december 20, 2023 and went downstairs at 4:51 pm. he only stayed for 9 minutes in between. after going upstairs, he did not directly enter the female tenant's room, but entered the shared toilet outside the corridor at 4:43 and walked out in less than half a minute. wang mouyang himself also confessed that he entered the room by knocking on the door normally and there was no violence. in addition, the case occurred in a private space and the time was short, so the collection and evaluation of evidence was difficult.

during the trial, wang mouyang mentioned that he and his girlfriend had a stable relationship and that his girlfriend planned to rent a house after coming to yiwu. he did not commit any crime in this case.