Vu Thi Kim Anh listens as the Hanoi People’s Court sentences her to 14 years in prison on Thursday.

A Hanoi college student was sentenced to 14 years in jail Thursday for killing her ex-boyfriend in February. She said the man had tried to rape her.

At the two-day trial, the court found that Anh had no specific motives to kill Nguyen Tien Chinh, who was married to another woman, and that the incident had happened without any premeditation.

The judges turned down requests by lawyers and family of 42-year-old Chinh that further investigations be launched into some details of the case.

They blamed the victim for breaking Vietnamese family values and causing pain for both sides.

Investigators found that Anh began an affair in 2006 with Chinh, a former policeman in Cao Bang Province, but ended it later.

On February 13, the senior at Hanoi’s University of Education, who then had a new boyfriend, gave Chinh a call and the man called her back the same day for an appointment.

Anh confessed to killing Chinh in his black Lexus SUV in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh District after the latter tried to rape her in the car.

She said she had used a fruit knife she found in the car to slit Chinh’s throat, then fled to her boyfriend’s house in Thanh Xuan District.

Investigators said Anh had no accomplice in the crime.

Reported by Thai Son