A police official in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, who led a murder investigation that caused the wrongful execution of a teenager in 1996 has been discharged from duty and expelled from the Party.

According to dabaixinwen, a social media news account affiliated with Xinhua News Agency, Feng Zhiming, former deputy director of the Hohhot Public Security Bureau, was sentenced to 18 years for duty-related crimes. Feng was one of the 27 officials involved in the wrongful execution of Huugjilt, an 18-year-old man who was accused of raping and murdering a woman in a public toilet in 1996, and executed 61 days later after the verdict was made.

In 2016, twenty-six of the involved officials received administrative penalties, including admonitions and record of demerit, eleven of whom were former police officers with the local public security bureau, and seven of whom were former officials with the local people’s procuratorate. Feng, a former deputy chief of the local public security bureau, was the only one who faced criminal charges for suspected job-related crimes.

According to the report, the verdict was made in October 2016. The Supreme People’s Court in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region rejected Feng’s appeal in July this year, affirming the original judgment.