Chinese Businessman 'Slaughtered Family-Of-Four With Kitchen Knife In Revenge Attack After Working Relationship Between Couples Soured'

A Chinese businessman murdered a family of four with ‘ruthless efficiency’ in order to ‘avenge himself’ after a business relationship turned sour, a court heard today.

Anxiang Du, 55, is accused of killing Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer Jifeng ‘Jeff’ Ding, his wife, Ge ‘Helen’ Chui, and their two daughters, Xing ‘Nancy’ 18, and Alice, 12.

Du armed himself with a kitchen knife and stabbed the family to death in their own home on April 29 2011, the day of the royal wedding, the jury at Northampton Crown Court was told.

William Harbage QC said: ‘The prosecution case is that this defendant, Anxiang Du, on the day of the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, on April 29, 2011, travelled to Northampton from his home in Coventry, via Birmingham, armed with a kitchen knife, and savagely stabbed to death firstly the two people, Mr and Mrs Ding, with whom he had been having a long-running legal dispute.

‘Not content with killing them, the mother and father, in the kitchen of their own home, he then went upstairs to find their two daughters, Nancy aged 18 and Alice aged 12, cowering in a bedroom. He cold-bloodedly stabbed them to death as well.’

Mr Harbage told the court, which contained members of Mrs Ding’s family who had travelled from China to be present for the trial, that each member of the family had sustained many wounds, some of which had penetrated the chest cavity causing fatal damage to the heart and lungs.

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