A crime of, CAUSE and EFFECT in this case, and the assailant only got charged on attempted murder, not with the combined charges of physically assault, see how lenient the law is here? Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The sixty-four-year-old man, Liao believed that his upstairs neighbor, the sixty-six year old Hsu made the noises that bothered him long-term, he was suspected of chasing and bashing Hsu's head eleven times with a wrench, chasing him, Hsu ran with his injuries for 350 meters, and ducked into a breakfast shop, Liao continued assaulting Hsu's head after he'd entered into the breakfast shop. The Shihlin District Court charged Liao on attempted murder, sentenced him to five years six months
The verdict pointed out, that at seven in the morn on January 16th, Liao was upset over how Hsu who lives upstairs continually making the noises, waited for Hsu to get out of his apartment for work, with the wrench, bashed Hsu on his head with brute force eleven times, Hsu was thrilled and took off running, ran out of the apartment, as Hsu's wife saw, she'd helped her husband escape Liao's attacks.
Hsu dashed for about 350 meters, dodged into a local breakfast shop, Liao chased him there, with the wrench, continued bashing Hsu's head repeatedly, causing Hsu to crack his head and bleed, thankful Hsu was taken to the hospital in time, he didn't die.
Liao claimed that he didn't have intention for murder, that if he intended to murder, he would've chased Hsu with a butcher's knife, he'd taken the wrench, that no matter how hard he'd hit Hsu, Hsu would never have a concussion, that he should be charged with assault only; around New Years back in 2022, he'd felt that there were noises like something hitting on the walls above his master bedroom, he'd rung the doorbell, asked for help from community commissions, nothing, had been on medication, moved out, and as he moved back in, there were still the constant hitting and banging noises, he couldn't take it anymore.
Hsu stated that they'd been neighbors for more than thirty years, that there were only three members of his family, that he'd not made any noises, and had Liao over to his place to check the treadmill to see if that's where the noises came from, that the noises from the old apartment may not be from the floor above.
The Collectivist Courts found, that Liao had bashed Hsu's head eleven times, and chased after him to continue to assault him, that the measures that Liao took wasn't from the moment of anger, that he behaved with the intent to commit murder, and knew that the shoes had fallen off his feet, he'd gone back to retrieve, there's no need for the psych evaluation, because he was sound and aware of what he was doing, sentenced him on attempted murder to five years six months. This can still be appealed.
And so, this is how the noises can drive someone into a murderous rage, despite how there was NOTHING making the noises upstairs, the perp still heard the sounds, and this may suggest at how he may be suffering from auditory hallucination, but the psych evaluation showed that he was of sound mind, when he'd attacked his neighbor with a wrench, and he only received a five and a half year sentence for ATTEMPTED murder, and he can still appeal.
