RELENTLESS WIFE FINDS REAL KILLER AND IS REUNITED WITH HUSBAND WRONGFULLY CONVICTED 10 YEARS AGO

What a wonderful wife! What an amazing story! This case has all the makings of a great movie.

WIFE GETS HER HUSBAND’S MURDER CONVICTION OVERTURNED TEN YEARS AFTER HE WAS JAILED BY TRACKING DOWN THE REAL KILLER
Nguyen Thanh Chan was convicted of a woman’s murder in 2003, but his wife Thi Chien, after trying for a decade, found the real killer

By Aaron Sharp

Mail Online
November 5, 2013

A man who has served ten years of a life prison sentence for murder, has been released after his wife tracked down the true killer.

Nguyen Thanh Chan, 52, was given the maximum term for the murder and robbery of a woman in August 2003 despite a lack of hard evidence linking him to the attack.

After a failed appeal the Supreme People's Court of Thailand, the innocent man feared he would spend the rest of his life behind bars.

But in July this year, Thanh Chan's wife Thi Chien, who has campaigned tirelessly since her husband's imprisonment, gave police the name of the man she believed to be behind the attack.

In a petition, she said Ly Nguyen Chung, a 25-year-old from the same village as the couple, was the murderer.

Acting on information, police interviewed Chung's step-mother and brother, both of whom said they believed their relative was the killer.

Chung, who was 14 at the time of the attack, went on the run in Thailand and China but has handed himself in to a police station in Dak Lak province and pleaded guilty to the murder.

President Sang of Vietnam ordered the case be retried and has requested an investigation.

Speaking after his release Chan said: 'I feel as if I am born again

'During the past 10 years in prison, I always hoped that I would be vindicated one day'

The trial of Ly Nguyen Chung, begins tomorrow. Because of his age at the time of the murder, will be tried as a child.