1/20/2008

"DEAD" DAUGHTER FOUND SHOPLIFTING: TESTIMONY OF WITNESS SHALL NOT BE SOLELY RELIED ON BY COURTS !

Police in the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda were baffled to discover that a woman arrested for shoplifting last weekend had been registered as dead a month earlier.

The woman's parents had mistakenly identified a body found in a forest as that of their 27-year-old daughter, Natalya Pavlova, who disappeared in November, police said.

It emerged that Pavlova was alive and well and living with her boyfriend in the same town.
“Her parents identified the corpse as their daughter. What could we do ?” deputy police chief Petras Mikalauskis said.

Comments: by the Chinese civil procedural law, court evidences are classified as 7 kinds as indicated in my blog dated 12th of January 2008, among which testimony of witness is one of them, but deemed less persuasive, and the Chinese judges normally require plaintiff to present more objective evidences concerned. The careless parental case as mentioned above could prove to much extent that the Chinese courts are correct.
(Notes: the aforesaid story is extracted from the South China Moring Post dated 20 January 2008, having been previously reported by Reuters.)

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