The stepfather was sentenced to 19 years
On December 15, 2019, according to CCTV News, the Yuxi Intermediate People’s Court of Yunnan Province, the Hongta District People’s Court of Yuxi City, and Tonghai County of Yuxi City The People's Court, as well as the Zhanyi District People's Court of Qujing City, the Gejiu City People's Court of Honghe Prefecture, the Wenshan City People's Court of Wenshan Prefecture, the Eryuan County People's Court of Dali Prefecture, and the Mangshi People's Court of Dehong Prefecture respectively prosecuted 19 public officials and officials involved in the Sun Xiaoguo case. The official verdict of the important person’s duty-related crime case was announced publicly. 19 defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 2 to 20 years
Li Qiaozhong (Sun Xiaoguo’s stepfather), the former director of the Urban Management Bureau of Wuhua District, Kunming City, was charged with the crimes of bending the law for personal gain, commuting sentences for personal gain, accepting bribes, and offering bribes. He was sentenced to nineteen years in prison for unit bribery. Sun Heyu (Sun Xiaoguo's mother) was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crimes of bending the law for personal gain, commutation of sentence by malpractice for personal gain, offering bribes, and accepting bribes.
The court of first instance found that from June 2005 to 2008, Li Qiaozhong and Sun Heyu requested the then Senior People’s Court of Yunnan Province on multiple occasions in order to obtain a lighter sentence for Sun Xiaoguo through retrial. Tian Bo, a full-time member of the court's adjudication committee and president of the filing division, and Liang Zian, a full-time member of the adjudication committee and president of the trial supervision division, provided assistance in the filing and trial of Sun Xiaoguo's appeal and retrial, and bribed them respectively. After accepting the request, Tian Bo and Liang Zian made suggestions for the two of them, and during the case handling process, they bent the law for personal gain, deliberately violated the facts and the law, and violated regulations to provide assistance to Sun Xiaoguo in filing and hearing the appeal for retrial. From 2007 to early 2008, Li Qiaozhong and Wang Debin asked Yuan Peng, then deputy director of the Second Secretary Division of the General Office of the Yunnan Provincial Government (handling another case), and bribed him to intercede and persuade Sun Xiaoguo to receive a lighter punishment in the retrial.
From 2004 to 2009, while Sun Xiaoguo was serving his sentence, Luo Zhengyun, then political commissar of the Yunnan Provincial Prison Administration Bureau and deputy director of the Provincial Department of Justice, was entrusted by Li Qiaozhong and Sun Heyu, and accepted their bribes, arranged and instigated Liu Siyuan, then political commissar of the No. 1 Prison in Yunnan Province, and other prison officers took care of Sun Xiaoguo. Under the care of Luo Zhengyun and Liu Siyuan, Sun Xiaoguo was credited and praised many times while serving his sentence in the Provincial No. 1 Prison. From 2004 to 2008, he was rated as a "reform through labor activist". During this period, Liu Siyuan twice instructed police officers under the Provincial No. 1 Prison to apply for a commutation of sentence for Sun Xiaoguo, who did not meet the conditions for commutation, and to create conditions and provide assistance for Sun Xiaoguo to use false utility model patents to commute his sentence, resulting in Sun Xiaoguo receiving illegal commutation three times.