Eunice Kang

PAN BOBIN, who knocked down a woman with his car and then beat her up in Futian District on Nov. 2, was released Thursday after serving 10 days in police detention.

Pan was also fined 500 yuan (US$65.79) and fired from his job at the Futian district labor bureau for beating the woman, surnamed Chen.

The husband of the beaten woman, who also has the surname Chen, told the Shenzhen Daily on Thursday that he had heard Pan was released Thursday morning. He said Pan was yet to visit his wife in hospital.

Chen said his wife would have to stay at Shenzhen No. 2 People’s Hospital for at least one week. “She would feel sad and depressed whenever she recalled what she had gone through,” the husband said. “Besides, she is also suffering from muscle aches which are brought about by side effects from taking extravasated blood-dissolving medicines.”

The woman was knocked down by Pan while she was waiting for her husband at the exit of Xingheyaju housing estate in Futian District on Nov. 2. She was beaten when she went up to Pan to ask for an apology. Pan said he had beaten her because she had kicked his car. The incident was recorded by surveillance cameras at the housing estate.

On Nov. 6, Pan was sentenced to serve 10 days in police detention and fined 500 yuan. Later he was fired from his job.

A regretful Pan wrote a letter of apology to Chen, the victim, from the detention center, asking for her forgiveness. Pan’s relatives also visited Chen every day at the hospital.

Moved by the sincerity shown by Pan’s family, the victim said she and her family wouldn’t make any unreasonable demand. “The compensation plan will be drawn up by my lawyer,” said Chen. “We will coordinate with Pan and his family to try to reach a compensation term we all agree to.”