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Offender Databases Kai Ji

Kai Ji

Alias

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Offences

Murder of his girlfriend on the Port Hills near Christchurch in September 2002

Victims

Zhi Ping You

Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1980

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to life imprisonment with a ten year non parole period in September 2003
Due for a parole hearing September 2012

Background
From NZ Herald story September 2003
A Chinese student was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for murdering the girlfriend who jilted him for another man. Kai Ji, 23, was found guilty of murder after running down Zhi Ping You, a 22-year-old language student from Beijing, in her own car, then deliberately driving over her body at least once, as she lay bleeding and dazed on the Port Hills near Christchurch. Ms You crawled several metres from where she had been run over and finally bled to death from pelvic injuries three hours later, by which time Ji had tried to stage the killing as an accident and had sought help from passers-by.

Unknown to the jury, Ji had confessed to intending to murder Ms You when he made a statement to police the day after the murder on September 23, 2002. But that part of the statement was not put before the jury after the defence had successfully challenged its admissibility. Justice John Hansen imposed the mandatory life sentence on Ji, who must serve a minimum of 10 years in jail.

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