(CNN) -- A Chinese expert in nuclear medicine has been given a suspended death sentence after he was convicted of using radioactive iridium to poison a colleague, state media has reported.
Gu Tianming, who worked at a hospital in southern China's Guangdong province, forged official papers to buy the iridium which he then placed in the office of a male business partner, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Gu had apparently been involved in a dispute with the man -- a business partner named only as Liu in the report -- and decided to take revenge on him.
The two had been joint managers of a laser medical center in a Guangdong hospital.
Aided by his subordinate, Gu placed a quantity of iridium 192, a radioisotope used in medicine, in the ceiling of Liu's office.
Within days Liu was complaining of memory loss, fatigue and a loss of appetite.
He also developed bleeding gums and was found to have an abnormal white blood cell count -- all symptoms of exposure to high levels of radiation.
Before an inspection eventually uncovered the source of the poisoning, another 74 hospital staff fell ill, many of them reporting similar symptoms.
Finding Gu guilty of seeking to poison his colleague, the court sentenced him to death with a two year probation, Xinhua reported.
His subordinate, Fang Zhenhua, who helped in the purchase and placement of the iridium, was convicted by the same court and sentenced to 15 years in jail.
I’m sure the open borders crowd are not concerned.
Is this series?
Ir-192 is very commonly used as a gamma source for industrial radiography.
Its use is pretty tightly controlled up here. Who knows in Mexico. The article doesn’t say how much quantity. If just one “pig,” then mostly a hazard to the thieves if they don’t know how to handle it.
Suspended death sentence? Does that mean he will be suspended by rope?
What?
“Robocop” was so prophetic.<p.
“I’d buy that for a dollar”.= Trump.
Wanna bet it’s already been driven across the border by an OTM?
We gotta get Sean Penn on this case, and quickly!
:-P :-)
Not to worry, it’s just the Muslim Jihadists stealing it to use on the U.S. when they flood through the border since Obunghole told the guards to stand down.