Lilith
08-21-2006, 09:13 PM
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese woman has appeared in
court accused of transporting panties and long johns
soaked in heroin, state media said Friday.
Wang Zhiqin, 42, from Wuhan, capital of China's
central province of Hubei, was charged with
transporting 1.44 kg (3.2lb) of heroin soaked into 15
items of underwear, the China Daily said.
"Drug tests apparently detected heroin on them and
Wang was arrested after a tip-off," the China Daily
said.
Wang pleaded innocent during her trial at a Shanghai
court Thursday, saying the tainted underwear had been
planted in her luggage, a pink trunk, after two men in
Kunming, capital of the southwestern Yunnan province,
offered her a job and a plane ticket to Shanghai.
Wang's lawyer queried the investigating police's
methods, who derived the quantity of heroin by
weighing the drug-soaked underwear, the paper said.
"There is no evidence of the exact purity and quantity
of the heroin, and there is no evidence proving Wang
was aware of what she was carrying," the paper quoted
the lawyer as saying.
If convicted, Wang could face the death penalty, the
paper said.
The trial continues.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese woman has appeared in
court accused of transporting panties and long johns
soaked in heroin, state media said Friday.
Wang Zhiqin, 42, from Wuhan, capital of China's
central province of Hubei, was charged with
transporting 1.44 kg (3.2lb) of heroin soaked into 15
items of underwear, the China Daily said.
"Drug tests apparently detected heroin on them and
Wang was arrested after a tip-off," the China Daily
said.
Wang pleaded innocent during her trial at a Shanghai
court Thursday, saying the tainted underwear had been
planted in her luggage, a pink trunk, after two men in
Kunming, capital of the southwestern Yunnan province,
offered her a job and a plane ticket to Shanghai.
Wang's lawyer queried the investigating police's
methods, who derived the quantity of heroin by
weighing the drug-soaked underwear, the paper said.
"There is no evidence of the exact purity and quantity
of the heroin, and there is no evidence proving Wang
was aware of what she was carrying," the paper quoted
the lawyer as saying.
If convicted, Wang could face the death penalty, the
paper said.
The trial continues.