However, Xu's mother insisted that her son, Xu Wei, would never commit murder. He was a very timid man—so timid that even when he went to the wet market to buy a chicken, he couldn't bear to watch it being slaughtered, let alone kill a person.
The turning point came last year when the police caught a rapist and murderer named Wang. In order to trade for a reduced sentence by performing a meritorious service, Wang confessed that 18 years ago, Xu Wei's armed robbery and murder case had actually been committed by him and his friend Zhang. Wang had acted as the lookout while Zhang went inside to commit the crime. Zhang was the one who killed the person, and Wang had witnessed it with his own eyes.
So, the conviction 18 years ago was a miscarriage of justice? Xu Wei had suffered 18 years of imprisonment for nothing, while the real murderer remained at large?
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