Hit-and-run victim's family U-turn on compensation
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Ma Yanming (L), attorney of Yao Qingwei tussles with Zhang Xian (R), attorney of Zhang Pingxuan in a residential building where Yao lives in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, Feb 8, 2012. [Photo/CFP] |
He revealed that his wife has become sick of late and it just hit him that they were promised the compensation fund kept by the family of their daughter's killer.
Donations from the public have also reportedly been generous. Fu Weigang, a Shanghai-based scholar, collected 545,000 yuan (40,000 in insurance) through fundraising on the Internet. Zhou Bin, a journalist from Guangdong, added around 220,000 yuan through a special foundation, said the newspaper.
However, Zhang Pingxuan claimed he wasn't aware of the sum, and that he has ran out the 100,000 yuan donation to cover his wife's medical expenses.
Yao Qingwei is also now refusing to honor the offer.
"I have no obligation to give them the money now, since Zhang refused to take it then and returned it." He said to the newspaper on Tuesday.
According to Yao, Zhang Pingxuan accepted the money at the first place, but returned it days afterwards. What's more, Zhang allegedly lied in later interviews about Yao's visit, insisting that he was not at home when Yao called.
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