Locating his ex-girlfriend and killing him with two swords! The Taichung District Court rejected the request of the Horrible Lover to be exempted from the National Senate Trial for 4 reasons

A horrific street murder case occurred in Taichung City in March this year. A man surnamed Chen was dissatisfied with his breakup with an occupational therapist surnamed Ba. After his request for reconciliation was rejected, he installed a locator to follow him in prison. He chased and killed him with a knife in the street. Chen pleaded guilty. The defense lawyer applied for exemption from national participation for four reasons, including sentencing expertise and the privacy of his family. The Taichung District Court recently rejected each case and ruled that he could not protest.

Investigation by the police revealed that a 30-year-old Chen man, who works in the finance and insurance industry, had been dating a 26-year-old woman named Ba for about five months. In August last year, Chen proposed breaking up, but his repeated requests to get back together were rejected. On March 11 this year, Chen men threatened her through FaceTime, which made Ba woman fearful. Chen Nan used the IG and Gmail account passwords obtained during the relationship to log into Ba Nu's account without consent, and peeked into her conversations with friends and renters. He learned that Ba Nu was preparing to move and was worried about losing her whereabouts. He bought a fruit knife and a card-type locator, secretly stuck behind the license plate of Ba Nu's motorcycle, and tracked her whereabouts through the mobile APP.

On March 27, Chen Nan drove north from Tainan to Taichung to lay an ambush. That night, Ba Nu returned home and met Chen Nan in the stairwell of the apartment. Chen suddenly used a knife to force her to go downstairs. Ba Nu took the opportunity to escape through the door. Chen Nan chased Ba Nu with the knife in front of many people. He continued to attack Ba Nu after she fell to the ground with a large amount of blood loss. Finally, he stabbed the knife deeply into the neck and drove away after confirming that the victim had no signs of life.

The prosecutors charged him with five counts of murder, intimidation, and obstructing computer use. After the whole case entered the trial process, Chen Nan's defense lawyer put forward four reasons and requested that the trial be changed to a general criminal trial and that the nationals should not participate in the trial. He argued that Chen Nan had confessed to the crime. The main issue was the sentencing and there was no substantive dispute. In addition, the sentencing involved professional appraisals such as psychiatry, clinical psychology, social work, and criminology, which may increase the burden on the national judges.

The lawyer also pointed out that the victim's family members have suffered tremendous pain and have received high attention from the media and the community. If a national trial is held, the family members may be harmed twice. The Intermediate People's Court held that the victim's family members had expressed their wish to have a national trial, and switching to a general trial did not mean that the risk of media reports and privacy exposure could be completely avoided. After comprehensive consideration, it determined that the petition was dismissed without reason, and no protest was allowed.