Suspect in Japanese boy’s stabbing is jobless with criminal record, Chinese media says

The man accused of stabbing a Japanese boy on the way to school in Shenzhen this week has a criminal record and no steady employment, according to police who have released more information about the suspect than is usual in similar cases in China.

The suspect, a 44-year-old man surnamed Zhong, was reportedly detained by Dongguan police in 2015 for damaging public telecommunications facilities and released on bail, the state-owned Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported on Friday.

The report said that in 2019, he was put in administrative detention – a maximum of 15 days – by Shenzhen police for “fabricating facts to disrupt public order”.

Zhong confessed to attacking the boy on Wednesday, the Shenzhen outlet said, citing police.

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