Desert Rd case: man pleads guilty in connection with alleged murder of Ricky Wang



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Bao Chang Wang, known as Ricky Wang, disappeared in 2017.

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Bao Chang Wang, known as Ricky Wang, disappeared in 2017.

A man has admitted to helping to hide a body, found buried near Desert Rd in the center of the North Island.

Bao Chang Wang’s remains were found two years after his death. Police believe the father of two children was killed.

Yuzhen Zhang, 29, appeared in Auckland High Court on Friday in front of Judge Christian Whata.

He pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the murder.

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According to the summary of events in court, Zhang’s associates told him about the murder in August 2017. He had also seen Wang’s body.

On August 21, 2017, Wang and four other people went to an isolated location on Rangipo Rd in the Taupo district.

Three vehicles were taken and Zhang shared the drive.

The police summary of the events said that Wang’s body was inside a freezer that had been placed in the back of a van.

The body was buried in a shallow grave in a vacant lot off Rangipo Intake Rd, 450 meters from Desert Rd.

Then concrete was poured over it.

The men returned to Auckland.

However, the next day, Zhang and three others repeated the trip.

They dug a second grave nearby before unearthing Wang’s body and reburying him in the deeper grave.

The police summary says that Wang, a father of two, was not reported missing for another two years.

Investigators found Wang’s remains in March 2020, after a search on Rangipo Intake Rd.

Two months later they interviewed Zhang.

Zhang will be sentenced on December 16.

Yanlong Piao was sentenced to 14 months in prison.

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Yanlong Piao was sentenced to 14 months in prison.

Earlier this year, Yanlong Piao, 37, was jailed after he admitted to being an accessory to Wang’s murder in August 2017.

Two men accused of the murder have pleaded not guilty and are scheduled to go to trial in July 2021.

A 23-year-old man accused of being an accessory after the fact will be tried in March 2021.

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