The former Fudan University student who
killed his roommate by poisoning him and
insisting it was 'an April Fool's joke' gone
wrong was sentenced to death at
Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's
Court this week.
The postgraduate medical student Lin
Senhaou, 28, was arrested in April when
his roommate, Huang Yang, fell ill after
drinking from a water dispenser in his
dorm room and died several days later
due to organ failure caused by poisoning.
Lin told police that he'd stolen the toxic
chemical N-Nitrosodimethylamin from a
lab at Zhongshan hospital and dropped
around 50 milliliters into the water
dispenser the two shared in their dorm
room.
Prosecutors said that Lin should have
known the amount was fatal, and believe
that he intended to kill his roommate
because he stayed silent as Huang's
condition worsened.
Huang became sick after drinking the
poisoned water on April 1, and died 15
days later. Lin didn't immediately confess
his involvement until he was detained on
April 12, when he told authorities that the
poisoning was a spur-of-the-moment act
after hearing Huang's talk about April
Fool's Day.
"April Fool’s was coming, and Huang Yang
said he planned to play tricks on others,
so I thought, fine, I will give you one
first,” Lin told the court. “I heard Huang
drinking water from the dispenser. He
took a mouthful of water and spat it out,”
Lin said.
Although he heard his roommate
vomiting, he didn't say anything to him
out of fear of getting in trouble.
“I pretended to be asleep because I was
afraid he would ask me about the water.”
Huang's father hoped Lin would receive
the death sentence, as he previously told
Shanghai Daily—"a life for a
life". [shanghaiist.com]
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