According to court documents, Mr Kim is a South Korean citizen who moved to New Zealand more than 30 years ago with his family when he was 14.
He is accused of killing a 20-year-old waitress and sex worker, Peiyun Chen, in Shanghai after travelling to the city to visit a different woman who was his girlfriend at the time.An autopsy concluded she had been strangled to death, and that she'd also been hit in the head with a blunt object. Chinese police said they have forensic and circumstantial evidence linking Mr Kim to the crime, including a quilt found with the body.Mr Kim said his former girlfriend, who has Communist Party connections, is responsible for the crime.Mr Kim's lawyer Tony Ellis said it made little sense New Zealand was trying to say his client would be treated fairly in China but also saw the need to post an expensive "minder" to make sure.
Mr Ellis said it would be impossible anyway for the minder to adequately monitor his client's treatment, because Mr Kim could, for instance, be unknowingly administered drugs to make him confess or be forced to deny torture was taking place. Mr Ellis said Mr Kim was in no fit state to travel to China because of numerous medical issues he was suffering including severe depression, a small brain tumour, and liver and kidney disease.The case has already dragged on in New Zealand for 11 years, which Mr Ellis said amounted to its own kind of torture for his client.
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