Four brothers who killed a person in a holdup with...

Four brothers who killed a person in a holdup with homemade guns were sentenced to death in south China's Guangdong Province. The eldest brother, 39-year-old Chen Jiafang, had his death sentence suspended for two years. Chen Jiafang and his three younger brothers, 22-year-old Chen Xianfang, 31-year-old Chen Duofang and 37-year-old Chen Zhenfang, first tried to rob a bank in Wuchuan City on January 13 while carrying homemade guns, but failed as bank clerks set off the alarm. Two days later, they followed a cashier who had just withdrawn money from a bank to a tobacco company where they killed one person and injured five before getting away with 250,000 yuan. The brothers were charged with murder, robbery and illegally owning weapons and ammunition. The sentence handed down by the Zhanjiang City Intermediate People's Court was their final appeal judgment after they were denied further appeals by the Guangdong Provincial Higher People's Court. The first trial was held at the Zhanjiang City Intermediate People's Court on February 11.