A stepdad who knifed his partner to death and then
A stepdad who knifed his partner to death and then stabbed her children as they begged for their lives was jailed for nine years today.
(wed)
Jurors had sat grimfaced listening to the harrowing tape of a boy wailing in pain to an operator as his mother lay bleeding to death by his side.
The 16-year-old was left screaming in agony after his stepfather, Kien Hoang, 45, repeatedly stabbed him, his sister and his mother.
He was jailed for a total of nine years today (wed) after he was convicted of manslaughter in relation to his common-law wife Hoa, 36, and wounding both the teenagers.
Brutal Hoang, who would punish his two stepchildren by forcing them to kneel on a Chinese tea cup for hours on end, regularly battered Hoa.
Repeated beatings led Hoa to finally leave him but he went back to live with them after serving only a fraction of a jail term imposed for assaulting her.
Hoang was released from jail on 23 July 1998 after having served just four months of an 18 month sentence for causing actual bodily harm to Hoa.
He then moved back in with the family, who were then living at (68) Chamberlain Rd, Edmonton.
They then moved to (7) Whitehead Close in the beginning of January this year.
The couple worked at home completing garments on electric sewing machines.
Giving evidence the boy told how his stepfather used to whip him with a coathanger and forced him to kneel on a teacup as a punishment.
Mr George Khayat, QC, prosecuting, said that Hoang’s attitude to his acquired family ‘was that he was going to be the boss.
‘In the case of disciplining the children that included a technique most of you would not have heard about.
‘He would take a little Chinese teacup and order the child to kneel on it, facing the wall and stay there hour after hour until the child could take no
more and burst into tears.
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After the brutal assault which led to his jailing Hoa took the two children away with her, living in Milton Keynes and Oxford for a time.
But Hoang came back to haunt the family when they returned to London.
On May 19 this year the 16-year-old boy and his 17-year-old sister heard their mother screaming downstairs.
They ran down to see her lying on the floor with Hoang plunging the blade into her repeatedly.
As they tried to pull him off, he turned on them with the knife.
After uttering the words: ‘I’m a dead man anyway,’ he stabbed his dying wife another two times before yanking the phone out of its socket, and driving
off.
The boy managed to dial 999, but was unable to follow instructions to help stem his mother’s bleeding as he couldn’t move.
A few days later, after a manhunt had started Hoang handed himself in to police at Edmonton.
A tape made of the youth calling emergency services was played to jurors during Hoang’s trial at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court.
The boy, who was gasping from his injuries told emergency services: ‘I’ve been stabbed.
At (7) Whitehead Close.
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The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was told to ‘Just calm down’ by emergency services.
On the tape he tells the 999 operator he thought his mother was dead already.
Asked why he thought this the boy replied:
‘Because she had been stabbed so many times.
I had only been stabbed three times and I felt nearly dead.
‘
The jury then heard tape went as follows:
‘My mum’s been stabbed.
Please hurry up.
‘
Op: ‘Just calm down a second.
How many casualties are there?
Boy: ‘Three people.
Hurry hurry hurry, I’m bleeding.
My shoulder.
‘
He then explained his mother and sister had been stabbed.
The tape went on:
Op: ‘What actually happened there?’
Boy: ‘My mother’s dying.
‘
Op: ‘Is she breathing’
Boy: ‘I don’t know’.
Op: ‘Find out’
Boy: ‘I can’t move’
Op: ‘Where was your sister stabbed? I need to speak to your sister now.
‘
Then only screaming can be heard.
Boy: ‘I can’t breathe.
‘
Op: ‘Get a clean towel and try and stop the flow of blood.
‘
Boy: ‘I can’t move.
‘
Op: ‘You’re going to have to get something.
Call your sister to the phone.
‘
Boy: ‘Hello.
Are you coming’.
Op: ‘The ambulance will be a little longer than two minutes.
Where’s your sister been stabbed.
Let me speak to her.
I need to know if your mother is
conscious or breathing.
‘
Boy: ‘She’s gone.
‘ Then he shouts: ‘SHE’S GONE’.
Op: ‘Where’s she gone – out?’
Boy: ‘No she’s been stabbed dead.
‘
Op: ‘You need to do resuscitation until the ambulance gets there.
Get your sister to come to the phone.
‘
Boy: (gasping) ‘My sister cannot move.
‘
Op: ‘Get the phone to her then.
You need to call your sister.
I need to speak to her.
Can you call her to the phone.
‘
Boy: ‘I’m bleeding to death here.
‘
Op: ‘You need to get a clean cloth or towel to stop the flow of blood – is there nothing there you can use?’
Then the police ring the door bell.
The boy urges them: ‘Kick the door down.
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Hoang, of (7) Whitehead Close, Edmonton, was acquitted by the jury of the murder of Hoa.
But he was convicted by the jury of manslaughter after claiming provocation because he found out she was having an affair.
The jury also found Hoang guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm to both the boy and the girl.
Judge Kenneth Machin, QC, sentenced Hoang to five years jail for manslaughter, with two years on each of the woundings, both to run consecutively to the five – making nine years in all.
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