{"id":20589,"date":"2020-07-16T01:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T16:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/15\/vietnam-jails-man-for-2006-killing-of-compatriot-in-wales"},"modified":"2020-07-16T01:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T16:43:17","slug":"vietnam-jails-man-for-2006-killing-of-compatriot-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20589","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam jails man for 2006 killing of compatriot in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gwent police say it is Vietnam\u2019s first prosecution of a citizen for a crime committed in UK<\/p>\n<p>A Vietnamese national has been jailed in his home country for killing a compatriot in south Wales 14 years ago, following an unprecedented cross-border investigation and trial.<\/p>\n<p>Tu Minh Le, 47, fled to south-east Asia following the death of 44-year-old Tran Nguyen in November 2006. An investigation between the National Crime Agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwent.police.uk\/en\/newsroom\/story\/news\/man-sentenced-14-years-after-newport-death\/\">Gwent police<\/a> and Vietnamese authorities eventually tracked down the suspect in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/15\/vietnam-jails-man-for-2006-killing-of-compatriot-in-wales\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwent police say it is Vietnam\u2019s first prosecution of a citizen for a crime committed in UKA Vietnamese national has been jailed in his home country for killing a compatriot in south Wales 14 years ago, following an unprecedented cross-border investiga&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,52,430,357,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-uk-news","category-vietnam","category-wales","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20590,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20589\/revisions\/20590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}