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Father of girl killed over online dispute seeks end to teen violence
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0822/1224322659223.htmlTHE FATHER of a 15-year-old girl stabbed to death in the Netherlands, in a contract killing allegedly paid for by her 16-year-old best friend and her friend’s 17-year-old boyfriend, has written to judges and politicians appealing to them to help stop teenagers becoming more and more violent.
Chun Nam Hau was seriously injured on January 14th last when his daughter, Joyce “Winsie” Hau, was stabbed repeatedly on the doorstep of their home – allegedly by a 14-year-old “hitman” paid €20 to carry out the attack after a row on Facebook.
The attacker, known only as “Jinhua K”, who appeared in court in Arnhem on Monday and told judges he was “enormously sorry” for the killing, is due to be sentenced on September 3rd. He faces a maximum penalty of one year in prison, plus detention in a psychiatric institution.
Yesterday the court opened the cases against 16-year-old “Polly W” and her boyfriend, “Wesley C”, who allegedly paid for the killing after Winsie Hau posted comments on Facebook suggesting, to the amusement of their mutual friends, that Polly W was “loose with boys”.
