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The 2011 murder of the Ding family occurred in Wootton, a suburb of Northampton, England, in late April. Four members of the Ding familyProfessor Jifeng "Jeff" Ding, his wife Helen Chui and their daughters Xing and Alicewere found murdered at their home in Wootton at 6:00 pm on Sunday, 1 May 2011. They were thought to have been murdered two days earlier between about 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Friday, 29 April 2011the day of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton which was an additional Public Holiday in the United Kingdom.〔 Northamptonshire Police named Anxiang Du, a businessman from Coventry who had been involved in a legal dispute with the Ding family, as the prime suspect in the case. Du fled the murder scene in the Ding's rented car; he drove to London and travelled to Paris by coach. He continued through France, Spain and finally to Morocco, prompting a worldwide manhunt. He lived in a partly built block of flats for 14 months before he was arrested and extradited to the UK. Du was tried at Northampton Crown Court in November 2013. He was found guilty of the murders and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 40 years. ==Background== The Ding family were of Chinese descent: Professor Jifeng "Jeff" Ding, his wife Helen Chui and their two daughters Xing (aged 18) and Alice (aged 12). Alice and Xing were talented musicians. Xing had excelled in school and 'has now been awarded four posthumous A * grades (A-level ) in Chemistry, Classic Latin, Mathematics and Biology, after the exams boards used her existing work to predict the grades she would have achieved'.〔http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/posthumous-grades-awarded-to-murdered-teenager-xing-ding-who-died-before-exams-1-3072628〕 She had already accepted an offer from the University of Nottingham to study Medicine in the autumn.〔http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/murdered-teen-xing-ding-due-to-compete-in-national-contest-the-day-her-body-was-discovered-in-northampton-1-2645773〕 They were all stabbed to death at their home in Pioneer Close, part of the re-developed Royal Pioneer Corps' Simpson Barracks in Wootton, a modern suburb of Northampton just over south of the town centre.〔("Family of four murdered in Northampton house - BBC News 2 May 2011 )〕〔("Northampton family stabbing murders: Suspect named" BBC News 3 May 2011 )〕〔( "Wootton murders: Suspect Anxiang Du to be featured on Crimewatch tonight" BBC News 23 Nay 2011 )〕 Anxiang Du was a businessman who had run a Chinese herbal remedy shop in Birmingham with the Dings. Since 1999, he and his wife had been engaged in a ten-year legal dispute with the Dings after their partnership failed. He faced a legal bill of around £88,000 after losing his final appeals. On 28 April 2011, Du was served with a court order preventing him from disposing of his assets. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2011 murder of the Ding family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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