Father and girlfriend executed after throwing his two children from 15th floor

CHINA – Father Zhang Bo and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen were previously found responsible for the fatal falls of the two children from the 15th floor of a residential tower in southwest China’s Chongqing Region.

Zhang, who was the father of the two children, had begun an affair with Ye, who was initially unaware he was married and had children. Zhang wanted to marry her, but she refused since she already had children and so did her parents.

She then urged Zhang to kill his two children, which she ‘regarded as obstacles’ to their getting married and a ‘burden on their future life together’, the Chongqing No. 5 Intermediate People’s Court said in a statement.

In November 2020, Zhang threw his children – daughter Zhang Ruixue, 2, and son Zhang Yangrui, 1, out of the window of the apartment he man before running downstairs to appear grief-stricken at what had just happened. Zhang was filmed banging his head on the wall and crying uncontrollably, which prosecutors said was all a sham.