This name Nguyen is too common in the Viets's selection of their last names. Poor Nguyen, died in an agonizing way.

Friday 20th February, 2009

Student confesses to Valentine's Day murder

Vietnamese police have arrested a college student who confessed to slitting her wealthy ex-boyfriend's throat with a fruit knife on Valentine's Day, a police official said Friday.

Police said Vu Thi Kim Anh, 22, a fourth-year student at Hanoi Pedagogical University, confessed to murdering Nguyen Tien Chinh, 42, as the two sat in his parked Lexus sports utility vehicle.

'[Anh's] action was partially caused by the victim's misconduct,' said Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Duc Chung, head of the Hanoi Investigative Police.

Chung said Chinh, the chief executive of a mining company, was married but hid this fact from Anh during their affair, which began in April 2006. Anh broke it off a year later after discovering Chinh had a wife.

The two met again in late January while attending the wedding of a mutual friend in their native province of Cao Bang on the Chinese border. Chinh reportedly pushed Anh to resume the affair, but she refused, saying she was engaged to another man.

On Feb 13, Chinh persuaded Anh to meet him by threatening to tell her fiance about their affair.

Anh told police Chinh tried to rape her in his car. Police said Anh used a fruit knife she found in the car to slit Chinh's throat and fled to her fiance's house in Hanoi's Thanh Xuan district, where police arrested her Wednesday night.

Under Vietnamese law, murder is punishable by 12 to 20 years in prison, life imprisonment or capital punishment, depending on the gravity of the case.