Elderly grandmother studies case law, pours over legal documents to represent son in court, needs medical attention as result
The 90-year-old mother of a defendant in a 117 million yuan (US$16 million) extortion case in China was so devoted to her son that she self-learned the law and appeared in court to defend him.
The case was heard at Zhoushan Municipal Intermediate Court in Zhejiang province, eastern China, on July 30, the Huashang News reported.
The defendant, a 57-year-old man known as Lin, was arrested in April 2023 for blackmailing a local entrepreneur surnamed Huang out of 117 million yuan, according to prosecutors.
Huang was among the top 100 richest people in China in 2009, with a net worth of eight billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) at that time.
